Bombay High Court and Amendment to IT Rules
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Bombay High Court strikes down IT Rules amendments of 2023 as unconstitutional
Last week, Justice AS Chandurkar issued an opinion ruling against the amendments, following a split verdict earlier this year by Justices GS Patel and Neela Gokhale.
The Bombay High Court, by a 2:1 majority on Thursday, formally struck down amendments to the Information Technology (IT) Rules, 2021, which had allowed the Central government to establish fact-check units (FCUs) for censoring news on its activities. [Kunal Kamra v. Union of India & Ors and connected petitions]