Resuetude?

Section 66A of the Information Technology Act, 2000 is straight out of a Zombie movie. It just refuses to die, though it quite certainly isn't alive. Killed 5 years ago by Chelameshwar and Rohintan Nariman, JJ, in the Shreya Singhal case in the Supreme Court, it appears that FIRs are still being filed under its provisions.

Let's remind ourselves at the outset what those provisions, added in 2008, state:

Any person who sends, by means of a computer resource or a communication device,-

(a) any inform...