K Commission of Inquiry under Commission of Inquiry Act, 1952 to look into these incidents.” 02.05.2016 Internet Freedom Foundation, the Petitioner No. 1 herein, was founded as a registered charitable Trust, setup inter alia to protect, promote and defend human rights of citizens using information communication technologies. 27.04.2017 This Hon’ble Court, in Karmanya Singh Sareen v. Union of India, S.L.P.(C) No. 804 of 2017. allowed the Petitioner-Trust’s I.A. No. 4 of 2017 to intervene and assist on issues affecting privacy of Indian citizens using social media platforms, viz., WhatsApp and Facebook. 15.05.2017 The Hon’ble Constitution Bench was pleased to permit the Petitioner-Trust to make oral arguments in Karmanaya Singh Sareen (supra). 19.07.2017 In response to a question raised in Rajya Sabha, the Minister for State for Home Affairs stated that: “The Security/Intelligence agencies regularly monitor the popular social media sites and websites and take necessary action in case of they find any classified material or provocative material or anti-national or terror related material hosted / circulated on such sites.” 27.06.2018 The ‘Committee of Experts’ constituted by the Union of India under the Chairmanship of Justice B. N. Srikrishna submitted their Report titled “A Free and

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