The Supreme Court has asked for an explanation from the government regarding the use of Section 66A of the Information Technology Act, 2000 despite the section having been scrapped in 2015. Section 66A empowered police to make arrests over what policemen, in terms of their subjective discretion, could construe as “offensive” or “menacing” or for the purposes of causing annoyance, inconvenience, etc. The Court has called it “a shocking state of affairs”.
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