{"id":233678,"date":"2020-08-10T15:00:34","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T09:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=233678"},"modified":"2020-08-14T11:04:44","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T05:34:44","slug":"all-hc-how-can-fir-under-s-66a-of-it-act-be-registered-when-it-has-been-declared-ultra-vires-in-shreya-singhal-case-hc-asks-ssp-mathura-to-file-affidavit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/08\/10\/all-hc-how-can-fir-under-s-66a-of-it-act-be-registered-when-it-has-been-declared-ultra-vires-in-shreya-singhal-case-hc-asks-ssp-mathura-to-file-affidavit\/","title":{"rendered":"All HC | How can FIR under S. 66A of IT Act be registered when it has been declared ultra vires in Shreya Singhal Case?; HC asks SSP, Mathura to file affidavit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Allahabad High Court:\u00a0<\/strong>A Division bench of Ramesh Singh and Raj Beer, JJ., directed the Senior Superintendent of police to file a personal affidavit with regard to an explanation on how an FIR was filed under Section 66A of the Information<span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\"> Technology (Amendment) Act, 2008?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Som Veer, Counsel for the petitioner submitted that the present FIR had been registered against the accused respondent&#8217;s 4 to 6 for an offence under Sections 66A and 67B Information Technology (Amendment) Act, 2008 along with Sections 294, 500, 504, 506 and 509 of Penal Code, 1860.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">In Supreme Court&#8217;s decision in <em>Shreya Singhal v. UOI<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/7M6wO0WZ\">(2015) 5 SCC 1<\/a>, FIR under Section 66A of the Information Technology (Amendment) Act, 2008 cannot be registered as the same had been declared to be ultra vires.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">High Court directed the Senior Superintendent of Police, Mathura to file a personal affidavit explaining how the FIR had been registered under Section 66A of the <span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">Information Technology (Amendment) Act, 2008.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Matter to be heard on 26-08-2020. [Mohan Singh v. 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