Rang De Basanti Completes 15 Years: An Exclusive Conversation With Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra When the misinformation ceases to be harmless, it invites for the law to step in. In one of its latest orders, the Union Home Secretary has come down heavily on those spreading rumours against vaccines. The home secretary Ajay Bhalla has asked the state chief secretaries to put in place a mechanism to check the spread of misinformation when it comes to Covid vaccines and book those spreading such wrong information under the IPC and the Disaster Management Act. "Penal action may be taken against the persons/organisations who are found to have indulged in such activities under the relevant provisions of the Disaster Management Act and the Indian Penal Code," says the latter dated January 19.