{"id":7516,"date":"2026-03-10T11:25:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T05:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lawfultalks3.selfst.art\/fake-news-can-damage-institutions-sc-hears-centres-plea-on-fact-check-unit-rules\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T17:48:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T12:18:28","slug":"fake-news-can-damage-institutions-sc-hears-centres-plea-on-fact-check-unit-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawfultalks3.selfst.art\/fake-news-can-damage-institutions-sc-hears-centres-plea-on-fact-check-unit-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cFake News Can Damage Institutions\u201d: SC Hears Centre\u2019s Plea On Fact Check Unit Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\">The Supreme Court on Tuesday&nbsp; heard the Union Government&rsquo;s petition challenging&nbsp; the Bombay High Court&rsquo;s&nbsp; September 2024 judgment that&nbsp; struck down&nbsp; provisions of&nbsp; the Information Technology Rules allowing the Central Government to set up&nbsp; Fact Check Units (FCU).&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p style=\"text-align:center\"><span style=\"font-size:16px\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p><span style=\"font-size:16px\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"><strong>Court Calls Issue &lsquo;Paramount Importance&rsquo;<\/strong><br \/>\n \n A bench comprising Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant, Justice Joymala Bagchi and Justice R Mahadevan observed&nbsp; that the issue was of<strong> &ldquo;paramount importance&rdquo;<\/strong> and&nbsp; said that the Supreme Court would lay down the law on the matter.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p><span style=\"font-size:16px\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\">However, the court&nbsp; declined the request made by&nbsp; Solicitor General of India Tushar Mehta to stay the High Court&rsquo;s judgment.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p><span style=\"font-size:16px\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"><strong>What The 2023 IT Amendment Says:<\/strong><br \/>\n \n Under&nbsp; the 2023 amendment to the Information Technology framework,&nbsp; social media platforms could&nbsp; lose their legal&nbsp; protection if they failed&nbsp; to remove content that had been&nbsp; marked as fake by the Centre&rsquo;s Fact Check Unit (FCU).&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p><span style=\"font-size:16px\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\">The Bombay High Court delivered its&nbsp; judgment in petitions filed by Kunal Kamra, Editors Guild of India, News Broadcasters and Digital Association and Association of Indian Magazines among others.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:16px\">Senior Advocate Arvind Datar, appearing&nbsp; for the respondents, argued&nbsp; that the Centre&rsquo;s Petition was filed&nbsp; with several days of delay&nbsp; in both filing and&nbsp; re-filing, even though&nbsp; the High Court&rsquo;s&nbsp; judgment was delivered in September 2024.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:16px\">Datar also argued&nbsp; that under the new 2025 Information Technology Rules, the Fact Check Unit (FCU) had in fact become superfluous.<\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p><span style=\"font-size:16px\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"><strong>CJI Stresses Need For Social Media Regulation:<\/strong><br \/>\n \n However, the Chief Justice of India did not accept the objections based on delay and said that the Court would examine the matter on merits. The CJI also stressed the need for <strong>stringent provisions for social media platforms.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p><span style=\"font-size:16px\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\">&ldquo;Look at the way some of these platforms are behaving&hellip; how dangerous are these&hellip;such fake news can damage reputation of the institution as well. Clear demarcated guidelines is needed,&rdquo; the CJI said.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p><span style=\"font-size:16px\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\">Declining the Solicitor General&rsquo;s request to stay the High Court&rsquo;s judgment, the CJI said &quot;No, not at this stage. We will decide the main matter itself,&quot;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p><span style=\"font-size:16px\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"><strong>Bombay High Court&rsquo;s Split Verdict:<\/strong><br \/>\n \n Earlier, in January 2024, a division bench of Justice Gautam Patel and Justice Dr. Neela Gokhale of the Bombay High Court had delivered a split verdict on the issue.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p><span style=\"font-size:16px\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\">The Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court then referred the matter to a third judge, Justice A.S. Chandurkar, who agreed with Justice Patel&rsquo;s view.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p><span style=\"font-size:16px\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\">Justice Chandurkar said, &ldquo;I am of the opinion that the amendments are violative of Article 14 and Article 19 of the Constitution of India.&rdquo; He also added that the amendments infringe Article 12 and do not satisfy the &ldquo;test of proportionality.&rdquo;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p><span style=\"font-size:16px\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\">In his plea, Kunal Kamra argued that he relies on social media platforms to post his content. He said the Rules could lead to arbitrary restrictions on his content,&nbsp; as his posts could be blocked or removed, and his social media accounts could also be banned.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p><strong>Case Details:<\/strong><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:16px\"> Union of India vs Kunal Kamra and Ors.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p><span style=\"font-size:16px\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\">Diary No. 60880-2024 and connected cases.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Tuesday&nbsp; heard the Union Government&rsquo;s petition challenging&nbsp; the Bombay High Court&rsquo;s&nbsp; September 2024 judgment that&nbsp; struck down&nbsp; provisions of&nbsp; the Information Technology Rules allowing the Central Government to set up&nbsp; Fact Check Units (FCU).&nbsp; Court Calls Issue &lsquo;Paramount Importance&rsquo; A bench comprising Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant, Justice 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