Tag: It Act

A bench, headed by Chief Justice U.U. Lalit and comprising Justices S. Ravindra Bhat and Ajay Rastogi, said it needs no reiteration that Section 66A is found to be in violation of the Constitution and as such, no citizen can be prosecuted for violation of alleged offences under it.

Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar said in a tweet that all foreign intermediaries and platforms have a right to approach the court and judicial review in India.

According to sources, Twitter has alleged that several blocking orders that were issued to Twitter only "cite" the grounds of Section 69A but fail to demonstrate how the content falls within those grounds or how the said content is violative of Section 69A.

Keonjhar: Police have arrested four people for allegedly forcing a young couple to get intimate, recording the act and uploading the video on social media. All the accused have been arrested under POCSO Act and IT Act while one of the accused is a juvenile. The victim is said to be a tribal girl while […]

New Delhi: The Ministry of Home Affairs has released an order authorising security and intelligence agencies for purposes of interception, monitoring and decryption of any information generated, transmitted, received or stored in any computer resource under the Information Technology Act. “Not just calls or emails, but any data found on a computer can be intercepted. […]

Bhubaneswar: Commissionerate Police on Tuesday detained a youth on charges of circulating fake news on Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik’s health by misusing the logo of OTV on social media. The youth has been identified as Pratap Sahu from Patnagarh in Bolangir district. Bhubaneswar DCP Anup Sahoo informed that the youth was detained based on […]