Despite SC ban, cops still using Section 66A of IT Act
TNN | Jan 8, 2019, 03:05 ISTNEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday sought the Centre’s response to a plea alleging that despite the striking down of draconian Section 66A of the IT Act in 2015 by the apex court, police in various states were still invoking it in FIRs to clamp down on free speech on social media platforms.
A bench of Justices R F Nariman and Vineet Saran issued notice to the Union government on an application by NGO People’s Union for Civil Liberties, whose counsel Sanjay Parikh alleged that the Centre had not taken enough steps to communicate the 2015 judgement of the Supreme Court in Shreya Singhal case to the state authorities to make them desist from invoking the quashed provision.
A bench of Justices R F Nariman and Vineet Saran issued notice to the Union government on an application by NGO People’s Union for Civil Liberties, whose counsel Sanjay Parikh alleged that the Centre had not taken enough steps to communicate the 2015 judgement of the Supreme Court in Shreya Singhal case to the state authorities to make them desist from invoking the quashed provision.
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