SC Issues Notice to All States, UTs on Use of Repealed Section 66A of IT Act

The Supreme Court on Monday, 2 August, issued notice to all states, Union territories, and registrar generals of all high courts on using Section 66A of the Information Technology Act, despite it being struck down and declared unconstitutional six years ago, news agency PTI reported.

""We will pass comprehensive order so that matter of booking people under scrapped Section 66A of IT Act is settled once and for all."" - Supreme Court, as per PTI

Section 66A of the IT Act, 2000, made posting "offensive" comments online a crime punishable by a jail term of three years.

Last month, the apex court expressed shocked after learning that people are still being booked and tried under Section 66A.

Days after the SC order, the Union government had directed the states and UTs to not register cases under the repealed Section 66A.

(With inputs from PTI)

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