<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yiv8519389047"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427333277404_8896"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427333277404_8895" style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div>Congratulations to Indian colleagues and comrades...</div><div dir="ltr">People here at RightsCon in Manila are elated about this and I am sure this development will be discussed here today some time in the programme... <br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv8519389047yui_3_16_0_1_1427153652709_95266">I was told by friends here that probably every significant Indian NGO and digital rights advocate has in some way assisted the lawyers in this significant victory<br clear="none"></div><div id="yiv8519389047yui_3_16_0_1_1427153652709_95265"><span></span></div><div id="yiv8519389047yui_3_16_0_1_1427153652709_94859"> </div><div id="yiv8519389047yui_3_16_0_1_1427153652709_94142"><div></div><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427333277404_8897">Al Alegre<br clear="none"></div></div> <br clear="none"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427333277404_8898" class="yiv8519389047qtdSeparateBR"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div></div></div></div><div class=".yiv8519389047yahoo_quoted"> <div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"> <div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yiv8519389047yqt5128142020" id="yiv8519389047yqt84729"><div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Wednesday, March 25, 2015 5:17 AM, Mishi Choudhary <mishi@softwarefreedom.org> wrote:<br clear="none"> </font> </div> <br clear="none"><br clear="none"> <div class="yiv8519389047y_msg_container"><div id="yiv8519389047"><div>
<div class="yiv8519389047moz-cite-prefix">This is truly a landmark judgment,
very glad to have been one of the lawyers assisting the court on
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Subject: Re: [ISOC] [Internet Policy] Misuse of : section 66 A
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<div style="margin:0px 0px 20px;font-family:'Open Sans', helvetica, arial;padding:0px;line-height:28px;font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0);">In
a landmark judgment, Supreme Court has struck down Section
66A of the IT Act. In their order, the court said,
Section 66A is violative of Article 19(1)(a), not saved by
Article 19(2), hence unconstitutional. </div>
<div style="margin:0px 0px 20px;font-family:'Open Sans', helvetica, arial;padding:0px;line-height:28px;font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0);">The
division bench said <font face="arial" color="#000000"> </font>public's right
to know is directly affected by Section 66A of Information
Technology Act. The apex court also said Section 66A of
IT Act clearly affects Right to <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.dnaindia.com/topic/freedom-of-speech" style="color:rgb(39,49,245);border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:700;background:transparent;">Freedom of Speech</a> and Expression
enshrined under Constitution.</div>
<div style="margin:0px 0px 20px;font-family:'Open Sans', helvetica, arial;padding:0px;line-height:28px;font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0);">SC,
however, refused to strike down two other provisions of
the IT Act that provide blocking of sites. </div>
<div style="margin:0px 0px 20px;font-family:'Open Sans', helvetica, arial;padding:0px;line-height:28px;font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0);">Thr
Court said there is a difference between discussion,
advocacy and incitement.Discussion & advocacy, no
matter how annoying, is allowed said the division bench in
it's judgment. Court while delivering the verdict said
liberty and liberty of thought is of paramount importance
in a country like India</div>
<div style="margin:0px 0px 20px;font-family:'Open Sans', helvetica, arial;padding:0px;line-height:28px;font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0);"><strong><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(204,0,0);width:auto;">11:37 IST</span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(149,149,149);width:270.921875px;float:right;text-align:right;">Tuesday,
24 March 2015</span></strong></div>
<div style="margin:0px 0px 20px;font-family:'Open Sans', helvetica, arial;padding:0px;line-height:28px;font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0);">Former
Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tiwary has
welcomed the judgment. He said that the law was misused
too often and hence it needed to go.</div>
<div style="margin:0px 0px 20px;font-family:'Open Sans', helvetica, arial;padding:0px;line-height:28px;font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0);"><strong><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(204,0,0);width:auto;">11:26 IST</span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(149,149,149);width:270.921875px;float:right;text-align:right;">Tuesday,
24 March 2015</span></strong></div>
<div style="margin:0px 0px 20px;font-family:'Open Sans', helvetica, arial;padding:0px;line-height:28px;font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0);"> Rinu
Srinivasan, one of the girls who was arrested under the
section for a Facebook post on Bal Thackeray welcome the
decision of Supreme Court. She said, "If this law is
repealed it may encourage people to speak up and against
all the wrong in the world". "I am very happy. I feel
like we have received justice after two years," she said.</div>
<div style="margin:0px 0px 20px;font-family:'Open Sans', helvetica, arial;padding:0px;line-height:28px;font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0);">......................................................</div>
<div style="margin:0px 0px 20px;font-family:'Open Sans', helvetica, arial;padding:0px;line-height:28px;font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0);">A
bench of justices J Chelameswar and R F Nariman had on
February 26 reserved its judgement after Government
concluded its arguments contending that section 66A of the
Information Technology Act cannot be "quashed" merely
because of the possibility of its "abuse".</div>
<div style="margin:0px 0px 20px;font-family:'Open Sans', helvetica, arial;padding:0px;line-height:28px;font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0);">Additional
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta had said that the
Government did not want to curtail the freedom of speech
and expression at all which is enshrined in the
Constitution, but the vast cyber world could not be
allowed to remain unregulated.</div>
<div style="margin:0px 0px 20px;font-family:'Open Sans', helvetica, arial;padding:0px;line-height:28px;font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0);">However,
the court had said that terms like 'illegal', 'grossly
offensive' and 'menacing character' were vague expressions
and these words were likely to be misunderstood and
abused. Some of the petitions seek setting aside of
section 66A of the Information Technology Act which
empowers police to arrest a person for allegedly posting
offensive materials on social networking sites.</div>
<div style="margin:0px 0px 20px;font-family:'Open Sans', helvetica, arial;padding:0px;line-height:28px;font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0);">The
first PIL on the issue was filed in 2012 by a law student
Shreya Singhal, who sought amendment in Section 66A of the
Act, after two girls -- Shaheen Dhada and Rinu Shrinivasan
-- were arrested in Palghar in Thane district as one of
them posted a comment against the shutdown in Mumbai
following Shiv Sena leader Bal Thackeray's death and the
other 'liked' it.</div>
<div style="margin:0px 0px 20px;font-family:'Open Sans', helvetica, arial;padding:0px;line-height:28px;font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0);">The
apex court had on May 16, 2013, come out with an advisory
that a person, accused of posting objectionable comments
on social networking sites, cannot be arrested without
police getting permission from senior officers like IG or
DCP.</div>
<div style="margin:0px 0px 20px;font-family:'Open Sans', helvetica, arial;padding:0px;line-height:28px;font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0);">The
direction had come in the wake of numerous complaints of
harassment and arrests, sparking public outrage. It had,
however, refused to pass an interim order for a blanket
ban on the arrest of such persons across the country.</div>
<div style="margin:0px 0px 20px;font-family:'Open Sans', helvetica, arial;padding:0px;line-height:28px;font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0);">source:
<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-live-supreme-court-strikes-down-section-66a-of-it-act-2071523">http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-live-supreme-court-strikes-down-section-66a-of-it-act-2071523</a></div>
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<div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">Hello,</div>
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<div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">This news
should offer some hope! :) </div>
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<div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Cambria;font-size:18px;line-height:25.7142868041992px;">Striking
down any attempt at curbing the freedom of
expression on the internet, the Supreme Court
today ruled that Section 66A of the IT Act is
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