Day after the Bombay High Court struck down as “unconstitutional” the amended IT rules that empower the Government to ...

AIM credited its legal team, supported by the Internet Freedom Foundation, for their efforts in defending press freedom ...

The court observed that the amended rules infringed the right to equality and freedom of speech and said the rules, being ...

Mumbai/IBNS: The Bombay High Court Friday struck down the Centre's attempt to set up a fact-checking unit after standup comic ...

'Tie-breaker judge' Justice AS Chandurkar delivered the decision. He was appointed as the third judge after a split verdict by a division bench in January 2023. The split verdict in January was ...

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EGI Statement on Bombay High Court striking down IT Amendment Rules (...) Mainstream, Vol 62 No 38,1, 2024 The Editors Guild of India welcomes the verdict of the Bombay High Court, striking down the ...

The Bombay High Court has struck down the Centre's amended IT rules that established a fact check unit to flag social media ...

The ruling reinforces that independent judicial review and not the Government’s own stamp of disapproval is crucial to ...

The Bombay High Court today struck down the 2023 amendments to the IT Rules that permit the central government to “fact-check” news about itself on social media ...

The tiebreaker judge noted that the provisions empowered the government to decide what constitutes “false” or “fake” news ...

Justice A S Chandurkar today heard the matter as a 'tie-breaker judge', after a division bench of Justices Gautam Patel and ...