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The Supreme Court on Tuesday expressed concern over the frequent misuse of Section 66A of the Information Technology Act, which makes posting of “offensive” messages on social media a crime punishable with a three-year jail term.
A bench of Justices J Chelameswar and Rohinton Fali Nariman said the term ‘offensive’ is “vague” and highly “subjective”, and moreover under the current provisions a person charged under the Section has to suffer trauma as there is a long time gap between the commission of the alleged offence and when the judicial mind is applied to the case.
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