{"id":118765,"date":"2021-07-14T19:58:29","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T14:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?page_id=118765"},"modified":"2021-07-14T19:59:29","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T14:29:29","slug":"shreya-singhal-v-union-of-india","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/shreya-singhal-v-union-of-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Shreya Singhal v Union of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>About<\/strong>: In the 2015 Shreya Singhal v. Union of India case, <strong>the Supreme Court had struck the section 66A of the Information Technology Act<\/strong>, down, declaring it a violation of freedom of speech and expression. Introduced with an amendment in 2009, the section punishes offence or annoyance caused through electronic communication media.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Detail:<\/strong> The court castigated the state for not taking corrective measures or directing its officers to not register FIRs for offences that have been declared outside of the ambit of legality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About: In the 2015 Shreya Singhal v. Union of India case, the Supreme Court had struck the section 66A of the Information Technology Act, down, declaring it a violation of freedom of speech and expression. Introduced with an amendment in 2009, the section punishes offence or annoyance caused through electronic communication media. Detail: The court&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/shreya-singhal-v-union-of-india\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Shreya Singhal v Union of India<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10314,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-118765","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}