Taking the case on urgent basis, the bench agreed to hear the PIL filed by a Delhi student Shreya Singhal but refused her plea that no coercive action should be taken by the government authorities against people for posting such messages on websites during pendency of the case.
The court posted the matter for further hearing tomorrow.
Shreya has contended in her plea that “the phraseology of Section 66A of the IT Act, 2000 is so wide and vague and incapable of being judged on objective standards, that it is susceptible to wanton abuse and hence falls foul of Article 14, 19 (1)(a) and Article 21 of the Constitution.”
