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Shreya Singhal v. Union of India

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Reported as [2015] 5 S.C.R. 963
Bench J. Chelameswar and R. F. Nariman JJ.
Decided 24 March 2015

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that the Rules are not constitutionally infirm in any manner.

Judgment, page 107

From the headnote

Information Technology Act, 2000: s. 66A - Constitutional validity of - Held: s. 66A is violative c of Article 19(1)(a) and is not saved under Article 19(2) - It arbitrarily, excessively and disproportionately invades the right of free speech and upsets the balance between such rights and the reasonable restrictions imposed thereupon - the expressions used in s. 66A are open ended, vague and undefined - The reach of the section is such that it has a chilling effect on free speech and thus suffers from the vice . of overbreadth - Therefore, s. 66A as a whole is declared unconstitutional -

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Where later benches applied it

Of those, 7 relied on · 1 distinguished · 9 referred to · 3 mentioned

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