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FPJ Legal | New IT rules are an assault on free speech : News portal Leaflet tells Bombay HC

: Friday, July 9, 2021, 9:08 AM IST FPJ Legal | ‘New IT rules are an assault on free speech’: News portal Leaflet tells Bombay HC A legal news portal, on Thursday, told the Bombay high court that the new Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules 2021 was an assault on the fundamental right to free speech of citizens. Representing the portal The Leaflet, senior counsel Darius Khambatta to the bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Girish Kulkarni that the new IT rules had a very “chilling effect” on free speech. Apart from Leaflet, senior journalist Nikhil Wagle also moved the HC stating that the new IT rules are arbitrary and illegal.

News Broadcasters Association challenges new IT rules in High Court

It represents the private television news & current affairs broadcasters. 09 Jul, 2021 - 08:56 AM IST     |     By indiantelevision.com Team     New Delhi: Over a month after the new IT rules came into effect, the News Broadcasters Association (NBA) has filed a plea in the Kerala high court challenging the new rules stating that they give government authorities excessive powers to unreasonably and impermissibly restrict the freedom of speech and expression of the media. In a detailed statement, the NBA said the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines & Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, are ultra vires to the Information Technology (IT) Act, 2000 apart from being violative of Article 14 (equality before law) and 19(1)(g) (right to freedom to practise any profession, or to carry on any occupation, trade or business) of the Constitution. It also stated the challenge is to Part III (Code of Ethics and Procedure and Safeguards in relation to Digital Media)

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