Wednesday, March 22, 2023

IT Act

No citizen can be prosecuted under Sec 66A of IT Act: SC

Supreme Court Wednesday directed no citizen can be prosecuted under section 66A of the Information Technology Act, 2000, which it had scrapped way back in 2015. Under the annulled section, a person posting offensive content could be imprisoned for...

Cases under Section 66A of IT Act a matter of serious concern: SC

Supreme Court on Tuesday expressed concern that Section 66A of the Information Technology Act was still being used, though it was declared unconstitutional in 2015.Senior advocate Sanjay Parikh, representing the petitioner NGO People Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), submitted...

Manipur tribal student leader arrested for Facebook post; released on bail

A leader of the tribal based student body who was arrested here for his offensive and hateful post on social media, was released on bail on Saturday.Finance secretary of the All Tribal Students Union Manipur (ATSUM), Kakai Singsit, was...