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Section 66A of IT Act misuse: Apex court issues notice
Friday November 30, 2012 03:31:54 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
The Supreme Court Friday issued notice to the central government
and four states on a petition challenging the constitutional
validity of Section 66A of the IT Act that provides for proceeding
against people posting annoying and inconvenient comments on
social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter and other
electronic mediums.
An apex court bench headed by Chief Justice Altamas Kabir issued
the notice - also to Maharashtra, West Bengal, Puducherry and
Delhi - after Attorney General G.E. Vahanvati told the court that
Section 66A has been grossly abused and welcomed the court's
intervention.
However, he said that per se there was nothing wrong with the
section and defended it.
Petitioner Shreya Singhal has moved the Supreme Court seeking the
striking down of Section 66A which was resorted to by the
authorities to arrest two young girls: Shaheen Dhanda, 21, who had
questioned the Mumbai shutdown after the death of Shiv Sena leader
Bal Thackeray Nov 17 and her friend Renu Srinivasan who had
'liked' the comment on Facebook.
Singhal claimed that the section was vague and impossible to judge
by objective standards, and thus liable to misuse.
Section 66A of the IT Act reads: "Any person who sends by any
means of a computer resource…any information that is grossly
offensive or has a menacing character; or any information which he
knows to be false, but for the purpose of causing annoyance,
inconvenience, danger, obstruction, insult… shall be punishable
with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years and
with fine."
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