The Supreme Court has issued a notice to the Centre in the application filed by People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) about the continued use of Section 66A of the Information and Technology Act, reports PTI. In its PIL, PUCL said that 48 separate FIR cases were registered under the Section 66A of the IT Act which was struck down by the Court in March 2015. The apex court said that the responsible officials for this will be arrested if the Court's order of scrapping the Section 66A of IT Act is violated. Sanjay Parikh, the petitioner's lawyer, told MediaNama, "The judgement was already delivered where Section 66A was struck down. Once you strike down the provision then you can't prosecute people for that particular offence. So, we had given the collected information and said that people are being charged under Section 66A. And we had collected some 48 cases along with the petition." Parikh added that, "We had asked that some direction should be given to the Chief Secretaries, all the authorities and the police that this has been struck down and people should not be harassed. The other one was to send a copy to all the High Courts. The High Court can send it to all the respective district judges. So somebody remains in jail for 40 days and then applies (for bail) and then it comes out that the provision has been struck down. This was the main thing. The non-implementation of the judgement. The court issued notice,…
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