{"id":119044,"date":"2021-07-16T00:04:48","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T18:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?page_id=119044"},"modified":"2021-07-16T00:04:48","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T18:34:48","slug":"section-66-a-of-the-it-act","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/section-66-a-of-the-it-act\/","title":{"rendered":"section 66 A of the IT Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>About:<\/strong> Section 66A of the IT Act, 2000 stated that any person who by electronic means sends any information that is grossly offensive or has a menacing character; or any information which he knows to be false, but for the purpose of causing annoyance, inconvenience, danger, obstruction, insult shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years and with fine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Detail<\/strong>: The Supreme Court had in its judgment dated March 24, 2015 in the matter of <strong>Shreya Singhal Vs. Union of India, struck down Section 66A,<\/strong> calling it \u201cvague\u201c and \u201carbitrary\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About: Section 66A of the IT Act, 2000 stated that any person who by electronic means sends any information that is grossly offensive or has a menacing character; or any information which he knows to be false, but for the purpose of causing annoyance, inconvenience, danger, obstruction, insult shall be punishable with imprisonment for a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/section-66-a-of-the-it-act\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">section 66 A of the IT Act<\/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-119044","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/119044","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=119044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/119044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}