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The government on Friday notified amended Information Technology rules under which appellate panels will be set up for addressing grievances of users against social media platforms.The government has notified the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Amendment Rules, 2022. According to the new rules, government-appointed appellate committees will be set up in three months for resolving the grievances of social media users. The notification said each griev...

Senior advocate Sanjay Parikh, representing the petitioner NGO People Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), submitted that there was a judgment given in Shreya Singhal matter in 2015, still there are many public prosecutors and police officers charging people under Section 66A and that is why this application was filed.