Explained: Kunal Kamra Case In Bombay HC And The New IT Rules His Petition Challenges

Bombay HC is set to pronounce judgment on petition filed by Kunal Kamra & Association of Indian Mag, challenging the IT Amendment Rules, 2023. Here's a brief overview of the rules and challenges to it

Kamra has challenged the new IT Rules 2023, saying that they have enabled the Centre to avoid court, and act as both the ‘Judge and the Prosecutor’. (Kunal Kamra Photo Source: IMDb, Bombay HC. Photo source: Getty + IMDb

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In April 2023, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) notified the new Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Amendment Rules, 2023 (IT Rules 2023). According to the new IT rules (2023), the government can ask social media intermediaries (like Facebook, Twitter, etc.) to remove any news related to the ‘business of the Central Government’ that was identified as ‘fake, false, or misleading’ by a fact-checking