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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