New Delhi | A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) is been filed in the Supreme Court against the Home Ministry’s order of allowing 10 agencies to intercept and monitor computers.
ML Sharma who is known for filing a series of PIL in various courts has filed the PIL against Home Ministry order authorising 10 Central agencies to intercept, monitor, and decrypt any information generated, transmitted, received or stored in any computer.
Advocate ML Sharma files PIL in the Supreme Court against the MHA notification allowing 10 agencies to conduct surveillance. pic.twitter.com/FIff7yEfq5
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According to ministries order, the subscriber or service provider or any person in charge of the computer resource will be bound to extend all facilities and technical assistance to the agencies. Failing to do so will invite seven-year imprisonment and fine.
The agencies are the Intelligence Bureau, Narcotics Control Bureau, Enforcement Directorate, Central Board of Direct Taxes, Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, Central Bureau of Investigation; National Investigation Agency, Cabinet Secretariat (R&AW), Directorate of Signal Intelligence (For service areas of Jammu & Kashmir, North-East and Assam only) and Commissioner of Police, Delhi.
The Supreme Court had earlier imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 on advocate ML Sharma for filing frivolous public interest litigations.
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