The Supreme Court on Monday issued a notice to the Centre on the use of Section 66A of the IT Act that was scrapped several years ago and said that it is shocking that the judgment striking down the law has not been implemented even now.The notice came during the hearing of a plea filed by PUCL that pointed out that even after 7 years of the law being struck down, as of March 2021, a total of 745 cases are still pending and active before the district courts in 11 states, wherein the accused persons are being prosecuted for offences under Section 66A of the IT Act.

The plea is based on data collated by the Internet Freedom Foundation, which has been tracking cases under the "Zombie provisions" which have been declared invalid but are still being used by police to prosecute people.It shows that even after March 2015, after the Shreya Singhal Judgment which struck down Section 66A, 1,307 cases were registered under the law.

The Supreme Court on Monday issued a notice to the Centre on the use of Section 66A of the IT Act that was scrapped several years ago and said that it is shocking that the judgment striking down the law has not been implemented even now.The notice came during the hearing of a plea filed by PUCL that pointed out that even after 7 years of the law being struck down, as of March 2021, a total of 745 cases are still pending and active before the district courts in 11 states, wherein the accused persons are being prosecuted for offences under Section 66A of the IT Act.

The plea is based on data collated by the Internet Freedom Foundation, which has been tracking cases under the "Zombie provisions" which have been declared invalid but are still being used by police to prosecute people.It shows that even after March 2015, after the Shreya Singhal Judgment which struck down Section 66A, 1,307 cases were registered under the law.