New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday said no person would be arrested under Section 66A of the IT Act for posting objectionable comments on social networking websites without prior approval from an officer not below the rank of inspector general of police.
A vacation bench of Justice BS Chauhan and Justice Dipak Misra passed the order after hearing a plea by Shreya Singhal, who had petitioned the court against the arrest of an activist Jaya Vindhyalaya (since been released) under provisions of the IT Act on a complaint filed by an Andhra Pradesh lawmaker
However, the court said that it "can't grant such blanket orders" as senior counsel Soli Sorabjee told it that police was arresting people on mere charges of posting comments on social media websites that caused inconvenience or annoyance.
The court's refusal to grant blanket order was on the prayer by which the petitioner had sought to restrain police from initiating "any coercive steps on the basis of Section 66A of the IT Act" till court pronounces its verdict on the matter pending before it....
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