Friday, 6 October 2017

CENTRE PANEL ON SECTION 66A PITCHES FOR CHANGES IN LAW TO COUNTER HATE SPEECH ONLINE

In order to deal with cases of hate speech online, use of cyberspace to spread hatred and incitement, an expert committee, constituted by the Centre, has recommended that the Indian Penal Code, Code of Criminal Procedure and the IT Act be amended in order to introduce stringent provisions for the same. The expert committee was constituted after the Supreme Court struck down the controversial Section 66A of the Information Technology Act in 2015.



INDIAN EXPRESS NEWSPAPER



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