18 Jun, 2014
Indian Police should not waste time hounding Kerala’s crossword players – The Times of India
Kerala police is of course not alone in acting with worrying alacrity when it comes to harassing those who are accused of anti-Modi comments. In Karnataka and Goa, there has been a rash of police action against people who have posted criticism of the new PM on social media. At the centre of such intimidation is Information Technology Act’s ambiguously worded Section 66A. Its many absurdities, such as equating annoyance with criminal intimidation, encourage police high-handedness. It definitely belongs in the list of arbitrary laws whose only ‘use’ is to harass citizens. Modi has said he wants to phase out arbitrary laws as part of his ‘minimum government, maximum governance’ programme. Now his government should step up to the plate and use the Kerala, Karnataka and Goa cases to scrap Section 66A forthwith.
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