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New Delhi: Media outlets owned by billionaires Mukesh Ambani and Gautam Adani are a part of a 21-member group of news publishers that have challenged the 2023 Digital Personal Data Protection law, news agency Reuters has reported.

Publishers allege that the contentious data privacy law will allow the government to identify journalists’ sources and defang investigative work entirely, the report said. The law is an invasion of press freedom, the publishers have contended in their petition filed in the Supreme Court.

The publishers moved the top court on October 6 and the case will be heard on Tuesday (October 27), Reuters reported. 

According to documents cited by the agency, publishers said that despite being........

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