IT rules

The intermediary notably is expected to initiate two-faced actions in as much as to firstly remove and not publish any content, regarding which it has been notified by the government and secondly, are expected to disable the access to such content within 36 hours.

WhatsApp has filed a lawsuit against the Government of India in Delhi High Court seeking to block regulations of recently imposed IT rules that would require messaging service to trace the origin of a particular message sent on the service. The deadline to implement the new rules ended yesterday.

The court has now tagged matter with other petitions with similar prayers and listed them for hearing on April 16.

Singh has sought direction declaring Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 as unconstitutional and the same be struck down.

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