The Supreme Court of India has issued a notice to the Centre regarding the removal of online posts without prior notice to the account owners. The court is hearing a plea filed by the Software Freedom Law Centre challenging the government's power to take down social media content under the Information Technology (IT) Rules, which currently do not require notification to the account owner before content is removed. The bench, led by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and comprising Justices BR Gavai and Augustine George Masih, observed that, prima facie, the government should notify the concerned individual before directing the removal of content. Senior advocate Indira Jaising, representing the petitioner, argued that this practice violates principles of natural justice under Article 19(1)(a), citing the case of senior advocate Sanjay Hegde, whose account on X was taken down without prior notice. In a separate development, the Supreme Court, through a bench of Justices JB Pardiwala and R Mahadevan, has ruled that visually impaired persons cannot be denied the opportunity of employment in judicial services. The court struck down a provision in the Madhya Pradesh Judicial Services Rules that barred visually impaired and low vision candidates from judicial service, emphasizing the need for equal opportunity and non-discrimination.