#Anivar aravind free#

#Anivar aravind free#

Admittedly, the Kerala government has said that this new law has been brought in to ‘fill the gap’ left by the repealing of the two laws, which leaves current laws ‘inadequate’ to prevent crimes online which have ‘caused considerable distress to the women in our society’ and cyber attacks that are ‘turning into a threat to privacy’.Įxperts say the new law is another affront on free speech and its wide and vague ambit leaves it vulnerable to rampant misuse.

The law is unspecific and indistinct and can be indiscriminately misused by individuals or even the government and the police, who may use it against those whom they simply disagree with.Ī similar law was repealed by the Supreme Court in 2015 along with Section 66A of the IT Act - Section 118(d) of the Kerala Police Act - for being a threat to free speech.

This is not just for writing or creating such a post, but those who share that post or opinion will also face the same kind of punishment. According to the new law, “Whoever makes, expresses, publishes or disseminates through any kind of mode of communication, any matter or subject for threatening, abusing, humiliating or defaming a person or class of persons, knowing it to be false and that causes injury to the mind, reputation or property of such person or class of persons or any other person in whom they have interest shall on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years or with fine which may extend to ten thousand rupees or with both.” This means that a person can face three years in jail and a fine of Rs 10,000 for any social media post that is considered “offensive” or “defamatory”.