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5 Jul, 9 tweets, 7 min read

#Supremecourt to shortly hear a plea by NGO PUCL for a direction to the Centre to issue advisory to all police stations against registering of FIR under Section 66A of the Information Technology Act, declared unconstitutional by the top court on March 24, 2015 #ITAct #66A

PUCL has urged court to direct the Centre to collect all the data regarding FIRs or investigations where Section 66A has been invoked as well as pendency of cases in the courts throughout the country #supremecourt #pucl

@PUCLindia

Matter to be taken up shortly @PUCLindia

#Supremecourt #ITAct #66A

@PUCLindia

Justice Nariman: Amazing. What is going on is terrible

Sr Adv Sanjay Parikh: please look at how cases have increased

SC: Yes yes we are issuing notice

@PUCLindia
#Supremecourt #ITAct #66A

@PUCLindia

Parikh: There has to be some kind of method. people are suffering

Justice Nariman: please read my dissent in the Sabarimala case for Article 144. It is shocking.

@PUCLindia

#Supremecourt #ITAct #66A

AG KK Venugopal: Even if it is struck down by the division bench, the section 66A is still there. When police has to register a case, the section is still there and only has a footnote that the SC has struck down.There has to be a bracket in 66A with words struck down

@PUCLindia

Justice Nariman: you file a counter as it is shocking state of affairs

@PUCLindia

#Supremecourt #ITAct #66A

Justice Nariman asks Centre to file a counter reply. Matter to be heard after 2 weeks

@DebayonRoy

[BREAKING] "What is going on is terrible:" Supreme Court on continued use of Section 66A of IT Act; issues notice to Centre in plea by PUCL

report by @DebayonRoy

#SupremeCourt #Section66A #66A

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