News Channels Who Have Challenged IT Rules Score Win In Court

Friday, 9 July 2021Newsdesk

The Kerala High Court today sided with the News Broadcasters Association (NBA) and ordered that no coercive action should be taken for not following the new IT Rules for now. The news channels' body had petitioned the High Court on Thursday challenging the IT Rules on grounds that they give government authorities "excessive powers" to "unreasonably and impermissibly restrict" the media's freedom of speech and expression.

New Delhi, 09 July 2021

As per news report of NDTV, In a statement, the NBA said the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines & Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, violate Articles 14 and 19 of the constitution, on equality before law and the right to freedom to practise any profession. The petition says the new rules create an "oversight mechanism giving the executive unfettered, unbridled and excessive powers to regulate content of digital news media". "The grievance redressal mechanism created and the powers delegated have a ''chilling effect'' on the content of the media. The writ (petition) also states that the executive by creating such a structure, has made inroads into judicial power and vested itself with powers reserved exclusively for the judiciary and such exercise of power is without jurisdiction," the NBA statement said.

Source -NDTV