The Madras High Court Bench here on Tuesday ordered notice to Union Home Secretary, Law Secretary and Information and Broadcasting Secretary apart from the Chief Secretary and Inspector General of Police in Puducherry to reply to a public interest litigation petition challenging the constitutional validity of Section 66A of the Information Technology Act.
A Division Bench of Justices K.N. Basha and P. Devadass ordered issuance of the notices returnable by four weeks and adjourned the hearing of the case thereafter.
Marx, a human rights activist here, had filed the PIL petition in the wake of the arrest of businessman Ravi Srinivasan by Puducherry police last month for having tweeted against Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram"™s son Karti Chidambaram.