With the emerging presence of everyone on the internet, it's time to revise our penal legislation because the absence of criminalization of such actions that fall in the category of 'new crimes' are being left unnoticed.Īlso to consider something obscene there is a test laid down by the Supreme Court in Director General, Directorate General of Doordarshan v. A similar opinion like this was opined by the Supreme Court in the above-mentioned case but was with respect to a man who does similar actions in person and not on the internet.
Now if there are a significant amount of people committing the same thing, will it not amount to disruption of public order? As there will be a high percentage of women (including minor girls) who will be facing a lot of trouble because of these people. On this junction, I would like to politely disagree with the Hon'ble court's point of view for example, if a person A, constantly bombards females with unwelcomed inappropriate messages online, which may amount to cyberbullying/harassing/stalking. "The question to ask is: Does it lead to disturbance of the current of life of the community so as to amount to a disturbance of the public order or does it affect merely an individual leaving the tranquility of the society undisturbed? This question has to be faced in every case on facts." A class 11th student from Bareilly was also arrested because he posted an objectionable post on a social media platform against Azam Khan, a senior Samajwadi party leader. However the same meant to be offensive to some people and the girl was booked under Section 66A of the IT Act, even another girl named Renu Srinivasan who liked that post was also booked under the same provision. After the demise of Shiv Sena leader, Bal Thackeray, a girl named Shahin Farooq Dhada questioned the statewide 'bandh' respectfully via her online post. Chidambaram amassed more wealth than All India Congress Committee chairperson Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra. The comments made by the businessman were that K. Chidambaram, son of former union finance minister, P.
Another instance is when a businessman of Puducherry was arrested for posting offensive messages against K. Some instances of its misuse are that: - a girl named Priyanka Sharma was sent to judicial custody for 14 days only because she shared a meme based on West Bengal's Chief Minister, Mamta Bannerjee.
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