Supreme Court · 2015 INSC 257 · Decided 24 March 2015
Shreya Singhal v. Union of India
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2015 INSC 257 · [2015] 5 S.C.R. 963
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CRIMINAL) No. 167/2012
- Decided
- 24 March 2015
- Bench
- JASTI CHELAMESWAR, R.F. NARIMAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 95, 96; Constitution Article 19(1)(a), 14; Information Technology Act Section 66A
Headnote
• Information Technology Act, 2000: s. 66A - Constitutional validity of - Held: s. 66A is violative c of Article 19(1)(a) and is not saved under Article 19(2) - It arbitrarily, excessively and disproportionately invades the right of free speech and upsets the balance between such restrictions imposed thereupon - the expressions used in s. 66A are open ended, vague and D undefined - The reach of the section is such that it has a chilling effect on free speech and thus suffers from the vice . of overbreadth - Therefore, s. 66A as a whole is declared unconstitutional
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