The petitioners claimed the Rules went beyond the scope of the parent IT Act as well as the reasonable restrictions imposed on speech and expression by Article 19 (2) of the Constitution.
India News: In an interim order, the Bombay HC on Saturday stayed some provisions of the government’s new Information Technology rules that pertain to the code of
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A division bench of the Bombay High Court has stayed adherence to two clauses of Rule 9 of the Information Technology Rules, 2021, while refusing to stay the rule in its entirety.