(5) The Authority shall ensure that contents and identity of the complainant in
complaints relating to modesty of a natural person are kept confidential and disclosed
only to such person or persons who are directly responsible for receiving and processing
of the complaints. For this purpose, the Authority may, in addition to other ordinary
modes of filing of a complaint, also provide a separate secure mechanism for filing of a
complaint.
(6) The Authority, subject to the provisions of these rules may on its own motion
take cognizance of any unlawful online content and may pass appropriate directions
including interim orders thereof:
Provided that interim order shall not ordinarily extend beyond seven days which
may further be extended for a maximum period of twenty days if the circumstance so
demand:
Provided further that after the maximum period of twenty days of interim order,
the Authority shall decide the matter and issue final order in this regard.
9.
Disposal of complaint. - (1) A Complaint filed under these rules shall be decided
by the Authority by a written order within a period of thirty days and may also pass
interim order wherever it deems necessary to advance the purposes of the Act:
Provided that an application for removal, destruction of or blocking access of
information, to the Authority under sections 21, 22 and 24 of the Act, shall be decided in
written order deemed reasonable in the circumstances and the Authority may pass an order
for removal, destruction, preventing transmission of or backing access to such
Information.
(2) The Authority may, if deem necessary, provide an opportunity of hearing to
the complainant and such other person, who in the opinion of the Authority, is likely to