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Friends,
Today I and wife social activist Dr Nutan Thakur have filed a writ petition in Allahabad High Court, Lucknow Bench for declaring section 66A of the Information Technology Act 2000 as ultra vires. specially the Fundamental Right to expression under Article 19(1)(a) and other rights related with life and liberty enshrined in Chapter III of the Constitution
We say in the petition that section 66A IT Act information encompasses any message or information that is offensive or has menacing character or causes annoyance, inconvenience, danger, obstruction, insult, injury, criminal intimidation, enmity, hatred, or ill will. These words have not been defined in the IT Act and are extremely vague, wide, all-pervasive, confusing, lax, incongruent, slack and ambiguous which has the possibility of being misused and abused as is being claimed presently in many cases all across the Nation.
We have specially cited examples of Shaheen Dadha arrest in Bal Thackeray Facebook post, Ravi Srinivasan arrest by Puducherry police in October 2012 for having tweeted against Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram's son Karti Chidambaram and a Kolkata professor, Ambikesh Mahapatra, being arrested in April 2012 for posting anti Mamata-Banerjee cartoons on social networking sites for alleged misuse.
We have said that because of the above-reasons section 66A is against the fundamental right of expression under Article 19(1)(a) and other rights related with life and liberty. Hence, they have prayed for this section to be declared ultra-vires. This is our salute to the young Mumbai girl Shaheen Dadha.
Asok Pande is the counsel in this case, which is to be heard on 23 November 2012.
I attach a copy of the Writ Petition for your kind perusal and your valuable suggestions, dear friends.
Amitabh Thakur
Lucknow
# 94155-34526
Lucknow
# 94155-34526
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