‘Right to be Forgotten’ upheld: Bombay HC orders anonymisation in court records

The Nagpur Bench of the Bombay High Court has directed its Registry to mask the identity of a 37-year-old individual from the digital versions of a 2018 judgment and related case records available on the High Court’s website, holding that the directions were justified under the Right to Privacy and the Right to be Forgotten under Article 21. The HC directed the Registry to henceforth refer to the petitioner as “ABC” in the cause title, pleadings, citations, judgments