# Supreme Court seeks rules for police posting accused images online 2026-08-17T04:46:26+00:00 | Governance | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 1 independent outlet (2 source reports) The Supreme Court on 18 August 2026 issued notice on a petition seeking guidelines for police posting images of accused persons on official social media accounts. A bench led by Chief Justice Surya Kant heard the matter and made social media intermediaries like X and Meta parties to the case. “Some regulatory regime is required,” Chief Justice Surya Kant observed, as reported by LiveLaw. In other proceedings on the same day, the court heard Balwant Singh Rajoana’s plea seeking commutation of his death sentence in the 1995 Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh assassination case on grounds of delay. It also took up a petition by advocate Ashwini Upadhyay on the NEET paper leak issue. LiveLaw reported that a plea for legally enforceable minimum support price (MSP) for all notified crops based on the C2 + 50% formula is scheduled to be heard shortly by the same bench. The court also continued hearing the Delhi Police plea challenging the Delhi High Court order that allowed Devangana Kalita to inspect electronic evidence collected during the investigation but not relied upon by the prosecution in the Delhi riots larger conspiracy case. The cases are listed for further hearing. ## Coverage - livelaw.in - livelaw.in (2) This story was synthesised by AI from the 2 sources linked above. Updated: this story now draws on 2 sources. Last updated 2026-09-27T06:17:53+00:00. Tags: High Courts of India, LiveLaw, Supreme Court of India Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/livelaw-launches-real-time-supreme-court-and-high-court-alerts/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/livelaw-launches-real-time-supreme-court-and-high-court-alerts/#story-in-brief Review state: restored archive article, accurate at time of publication, not offered to search indexes. How this brief was made: an AI model read the reports linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. Stance labels are editorial classifications of how each outlet framed this story, assigned by the same model, not ratings of the outlets. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/