UP Cadre IPS officer Amitabh Thakur and his wife social activist Dr Nutan Thakur have filed a writ petition in Allahabad High Court, Lucknow Bench, for declaring section 66A of the Information Technology Act 2000 as ultra vires because it violates the fundamental right to expression under Article 19(1)(a) and other rights related with life and liberty enshrined in Chapter III of the Constitution
The petitioners have said that section 66A IT Actinformation encompasses any message or information that is offensive or has menacing character or causes annoyance, inconvenience, danger, obstruction, insult, injury, criminal intimidation, enmity, hatred, or ill will. These words have not been defined in the IT Act and are vague, wide, all-pervasive, confusing, incongruent, slack and ambiguous which has the possibility of being misused and abused as is being claimed presently in many cases all across the nation.