66APunishment for sending offensive messages through communication service, etc.
66A. [Punishment for sending offensive messages through communication service, etc.]–Omitted by the Jan Vishwas (Amendment of Provisions) Act, 2023 (18 of 2023), s. 2 and Schedule (w.e.f. 30-11-2023).
Note: a superscript footnote marker 2 is printed immediately before the section number, keying the Supreme Court note at page 24 footnote 2: the section had already been struck down as unconstitutional in Shreya Singhal v. Union of India (24-3-2015) eight years before Parliament formally omitted it. The ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS prints the entry as “66A. [Omitted.].”.
Section 66A has been struck down by supreme Court's Order dated 24-3-2015 in the Shreya Singhal Vs. Union of India, AIR 2015 SC. 1523.