Section 66A of Information Technology Act 2000

  • The Supreme Court issued notice recently in an application filed by People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), on the continued use of Section 66A of the Information Technology Act.
  • In its petition, PUCL has submitted that more than 22 people have been prosecuted under the provision, after it was scrapped by the Supreme Court in March, 2015 in Shreya Singhal v. Union of India case.
  • The SC had before scrapping it noted that Section 66A arbitrarily, excessively and disproportionately invades the right of free speech, under article 19(1) (a) of the Constitution, and upsets the balance between such right and the ....
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