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Delhi High Court hearing pleas filed by The Quint, The Wire and others challenging the validity of the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021.

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Senior Advocate Nitya Ramakrishnan seeks notice in the plea filed by Pravda Media Foundation. Also seeks interim relief

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Court: There is no question of interim relief from a vacation bench. They (Centre) are only implementing the notification on which there was no stay.

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Application for stay of the Rules has come up before the Division Bench on two occasions, and stay was not granted.

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Ramakrishnan: We told Centre that information required under the Rules was available in the public domain. June 18 letter says that consequences will follow.

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IT Act does not permit Centre to sit in judgment over content on digital media. They are threatening us with action: Ramakrishnan

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Ramakrishnan taking instructions on whether petitioner would be agreeable to having the matter before the roster bench when vacation concludes

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Court issues notice in application filed by Pravda Media Foundation. Replies to be filed within four weeks. Application filed in the matter to be heard before regular bench on July 7. Main writ to be listed on August 4, along with pleas by @TheQuint @thewire_in

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