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India News: In an interim order, the Bombay HC on Saturday stayed some provisions of the government’s new Information Technology rules that pertain to the code of
Court order interim stay to operation of clauses 9 (1) and 9 (3) in big win for online publishers
The Bombay High Court has asked the Centre to file a “short affidavit” by Thursday in response to a plea challenging new IT rules.
The court was hearing petitions filed by digital news portal The Leaflet and journalist Nikhil Wagle.
A bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice G S Kulkarni sought the government's reply by August 12. The petitions filed by digital news portal `The Leaflet' and journalist Nikhil Wagle claimed that the new regulations are "vague", "draconian", and bound to have a "chilling effect" on the freedom of press.