The government is planning to send advisories to state governments to ensure that arrests under the IT Act should not be made without approval from higher authorities, Information Technology Minister Kapil Sibal said here Friday.
"We will soon be sending advisories to state government that inspector, or sub-inspector level officers should not use section 66(A) of the IT act without any order from senior level officers," Sibal said replying supplementaries during question hour in the Rajya Sabha.
The section 66(A) of IT Act has provision for punishment for sending offensive messages via electronic mail that is "grossly offensive or is menacing", "any false information causing annoyance, insult, danger", "causing inconvenience", and "deceiving or misleading recipient"... AndhraReporter
