Provided that any notification made by the
Appropriate Government or its agency in relation to
any information which is prohibited under any law
for the time being in force shall be issued by an
authorised agency, as may be notified by the
Appropriate Government:
Provided further that if any such information is
hosted, stored or published, the intermediary shall
remove or disable access to that information, as early
as possible, but in no case later than thirty-six hours
from the receipt of the court order or on being
notified by the Appropriate Government or its
agency, as the case may be:
Provided also that the removal or disabling of access
to any information, data or communication link
within the categories of information specified under
this clause, under clause (b) on a voluntary basis, or
on the basis of grievances received under sub-rule (2)
by such intermediary, shall not amount to a violation
of the conditions of clauses (a) or (b) of sub-section
(2) of section 79 of the Act;
XXX
Rule 4. Additional due diligence to be observed by
significant social media intermediary.
…
(2) A significant social media intermediary providing
services primarily in the nature of messaging shall
enable the identification of the first originator of the
information on its computer resource as may be
required by a judicial order passed by a court of
competent jurisdiction or an order passed under
section 69 by the Competent Authority as per the
Information Technology (Procedure and Safeguards
for interception, monitoring and decryption of
Signature Not Verified
Digitally Signed
By:DEVANSHU JOSHI
Signing Date:31.08.2022
12:12:31
CS (COMM) 282/2020
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