New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday declared shocked in the police still enrolled a case based on Part 66A from the Information Technology Act.
Part 66A from the Information Technology Law was beaten by the APEX court in March 2015.
“It is very surprising, troublesome and amazing that the police across the country still register cases under the Information Technology Act”, Judicial Judges RF Nariman, Km Joseph and BR Gavai said.
Appearing for the People People Petitioner for civil liberties, Senior Advocate Sanjay Parikh said that before the Sec 66a was shocked, there were 687 cases submitted below.
However, after the part was hit, there were 1307 cases, Parach said.
AG K K Venugopal said the action published after hitting the Sec 66a still contained provisions with a small foot note that said SC had hit that part.
“No police really see footnotes,” Venugopal said.
SC meanwhile issued a notification to the center in this problem and said, “We will do something”.
Part 66A from IT ACT allows catching to post offensive content on social media sites.
Controversial provisions make offensive material posts on social networking sites violations that can be sentenced to three years in prison.
Read the Alsosusreme Court attacked the part 66a of the action which allowed the arrest for unpleasant content of the Dilinhe Supreme Court on Tuesday crashing into parts of 66A from that action that allowed the arrest to post social media content.
This section has been widely used by police in various countries to arrest people to post important comments on social and political problems and political leaders on social networking sites.
The court said that such a law regarding the root of freedom and freedom of expression, two cardinal pillars of democracy.
‘Surprisingly, troublesome’: SC in the police still filed a casing for comments ‘offensive’ online
