Will Section 66A finally be laid to rest?
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Last Monday, the
Supreme Court of India said it was “shocked” that police across the country continue to charge people under
Section 66A of the Information Technology Act, a law it struck down as unconstitutional in March 2015. “You file a counter as it is a shocking state of affairs,” Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman told Attorney General KK Venogopal, who sought two weeks to reply.
Will 2021 be the year that Indians are finally freed from the clutches of this atrocious “zombie law”?
Shocking that people still booked under scrapped Section 66A of IT Act: Supreme Court
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Shocking And Terrible : SC On Cops Filing Cases Under Scrapped Section 66A Of IT Act
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Synopsis With the scale at which complaints regarding sedition and defamation are being filed in the country, platforms and grievance officers are likely to err on the side of caution and end up censoring legitimate speech.
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The rules also empower the government to step in and censor streaming content, after it goes through adjudication via a few layers of a self-regulatory system.
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