Kerala High Court stays proceedings by police asking Malayalam newspaper to disclose source on report about alleged data leak of PSC applicants

The Kerala High Court in the case O. Abdurahman v State of Kerala and Another observed and has stayed further proceedings in connection to the notice issued by the police's Crime Branch to Malayalam language newspaper Madhyamam Daily asking it to reveal how it accessed a note by the Kerala Public Service Commission, KPSC which is stated said to have that the name and password of several PSC applicants were available on the dark web.

Madhyamam had reported on the issue on July 28 with the image of the note. However, the crime Branch Central Unit - I Deputy Superintendent had claimed in the notice sent to the Chief Editor that. Therefore, the petitioners-Chief Editor and Senior Sub-editor of the newspaper, had replied to these notices wherein it is stated that they cannot disclose their source. They approached the High Court to quash the notice issued by the Crime Branch.