Section 66A of the Information Technology Act will be back on the statute books, with modifications, as per the current plan of the government, reported the PTI . The ministry of home affairs has constituted a committee to examine the implications of the Supreme Court’s March judgment repealing the ...

Four practising Supreme Court advocates are set to challenge the Delhi high court’s dismissal last week of their public interest litigation (PIL) challenging the Information Technology Act (IT Act) and Rules (Intermediaries Guidelines) and the government’s August order blocking hundreds of webpages, under the constitutional guarantee of freedom of speech and expression.

Government sends legal notices to account holder on Twitter, YouTube and Facebook who allegedly posted on their webpage inflammatory messages and morphed images related to ethnic violence in Assam. Notices have been sent to “at least four” Twitter account holders, asking them to appear before a comm...

The Delhi high court dismissed a public interest litigation filed by a group of law students to quash the department of telecommunications’ notifications last month blocking hundreds of webpages , on Wednesday. The Supreme Court had also returned a petition challenging the block on 31 August, asking...