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Response filed by Center before Madras High Court challenging IT rule 2021

The Madras High Court received Centre’s counter affidavit filed in response to petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021…

Section 66A of the IT Act is still used: Supreme Court orders all States to probe this

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In the landmark March 2015 case of Shreya Singhal , Section 66A of the Information Technology Act, 2000, was repealed. Despite the striking down of Section 66A, its continued use,…

No coercive action for non compliance of IT rules: Kerala High Court

The Kerala High Court on Friday issued notice on News Broadcasters Associatio'sn (NBA) plea challenging the new IT rules on the ground that they give government authorities "excessive powers" to…

DELHI HC POSTS HEARING OF STAY ON IMPLEMENTATION OF IT RULES FOR JULY 7

The vacation bench of Justices C. Hari Shankar and Subramonium Prasad of the Delhi High Court today referred The Quint's petition for an interim stay on the implementation of the…

Twitter’s India Offices Raided by Delhi Police After Political Tweet

On Monday the ongoing battle between the Indian government and Twitter was esclated by the Delhi Police raiding the social media branches Delhi and Gurgaon offices over a tweet marked…

Delhi High Court sought response from centre on the plea concerning new IT rules

In support of the application questioning the latest Information Technology (Guidelines for intermediaries and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules 2021, the Delhi High Court has summoned a report from the…

Matter of Public importance’, High Court circulates Notices on plea for details of Aarogya Setu app under RTI Act

Delhi High Court sought the reaction of the MoE and IT and CPIOs of its different departments on a plea to get details of the Aarogya Setu application.The HC, which…

Fake Twitter Handle of Actress Ravina Tandon used to defame Mumbai Police

A First Information Report FIR has been filed by bollywood actress Raveena Tandon against an unknown person for creating a fake Twitter profile in her name. The twitter handle was…

After student wakes up from coma and testifies, 2 techies convicted in bid to kill him

The attempt to murder happened ten years ago in Bengaluru and the student had gone into a coma.Ten years after an engineering student was pushed off the fourth floor of…