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Kerala Governor Saturday signed ordinance seeking amendment to Kerala Police Act to control online bullying and virtual abuse of women, children.

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Harsh Kerala law brings 5yr jail for content ‘that could insult’ people, media under lens too -Rohini Swamy

-ThePrint.in Kerala Governor Saturday signed ordinance seeking amendment to Kerala Police Act to control online bullying and virtual abuse of women, children. Bengaluru: Kerala journalists are viewing the Kerala Police Act Amendment ordinance as a new attempt to gag the media, saying the new legality gives the state legal grounds to object to reports the ruling party may deem unfavourable. Governor Arif Mohammed Khan Saturday signed the ordinance seeking an amendment to the Kerala Police Act to control online bullying and virtual abuse of women and children. “The ordinance only helps the police to track unwanted elements on social media,” a senior official attached to the Chief Minister’s media cell told ThePrint on the condition of anonymity. Reading the fine print According to a press release issued by CM Pinarayi Vijayan on 21 October, the Kerala cabinet recommended to the Governor the promulgation of the ordinance to insert Section 118 (A) into the Act. The state government recommendation to amend the police act says that if the government finds any media platform including social media producing, publishing or propagating content that could threaten, insult or harm an individual, they will be punished with a fine of Rs 10,000, imprisonment of five years or both. While state officials said this would give law enforcers more teeth to prosecute the guilty, media houses said the law could be used to gag them. “The government has been planning to take control of the media in the disguise of controlling cyber bullying. However, the amendment doesn’t specifically mention cyber bullying but ‘mass media’. This means, all media fall under this purview,” K.P. Reji, Kerala Union of Working Journalists (KUWJ) president, told ThePrint. Please click here to read more.