Chennai: Madras High Court on Thursday experienced a certain sub-clause operation of the recently introduced information technology Democratic principles.
Incidentally, the Bombay High Court had a similar order last month in related cases.
Sub-clause (1) and (3) Rule 9, who live today, establishes compliance with the code of ethics.
They were put into the original IT rules in February this year.
The first bench of the chairman of Judge Sanjib Banerjee and Justice PD Audikesavalu gave a period of stay while passing the temporary command on the chosen batch of TM Krishna’s carnatic musicians and digital news issuing associations, consisting of 13 media outlets and other individuals, challenging the constitutional validity of new rules.
Prima Facie, there is a substance in the opinion of the applicants that the mechanism for controlling media by the government can rob the media, both print and electronic, from their independence and democratic principles, Bench said.
The court postponed this problem for the last week of October, when told that a similar case was delayed before the Supreme Court was scheduled to come to hear in the first week of next month.
The Bombay High Court, while providing a temporary inn in August, it has argued that “differences of opinion” are very important for democracy.
Sub-clause 1 and 3 of verse 9 of the new rules are, in advance, “in reality it does not make sense”, and “provisions that are uncertain and broad rules carrying qua cold effects (about) the freedom of speech and the writer’s expression / editor / publishers “because they can be transported for anything if the authorities are so hoping, it then said.
Madras HC remains certain sub-clauses of new rules
