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Drop all cases under scrapped Section 66A, says Supreme Court -R Balaji

-The Telegraph

Under the section, a person posting offensive content on the Internet could be imprisoned for up to three years and also fined

The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed that no citizen could be prosecuted under Section 66A of the Information Technology Act, 2000, which was scrapped in 2015, and struck down all pending cases under the section.

“Those cases where the alleged violations have been projected and citizens were facing prosecution for alleged violation of the law, the reference and relation upon the said section from all the crime or criminal proceedings shall stand deleted,” Chief Justice of India U.U. Lalit said in an order.

Under Section 66A, a person posting offensive content on the Internet could be imprisoned for up to three years and also fined.

The court clarified on Wednesday that the order for deletion would apply only to those cases where the citizens had been booked under Section 66A of the IT Act. In cases where both Indian Penal Code (IPC) and 66A offences have been invoked against a person, only Section 66A would stand deleted and the other IPC offences would continue.

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