The Supreme Court has held that Section 79 of the Information Technology Act, as it stood before its amendment in 2009, did not protect intermediaries with regard to an offence of criminal defamation under Section 499/500 of the Indian Penal Code. The Bench of Justices KM Joseph and Ashok Bhushan held the same while hearing a […]
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