The Bench of CJI and Justice Ravindra Bhat hearing a PIL petition filed by an NGO PUCL- Public Union for Civil Liberties called upon the Centre Government to collect data from all the states about the pending cases under section 66A of the Information Technology Act when the NGO had pointed out before the Apex Court that the same could not have been continued after the judgment of this Court in the case of Sherya Singhal V. Union of India reported in (2015) 1 SCC 1.

The court asked the Union of India to impress upon the Remedial measures as soon as possible since the FIRs are registered under section 66A of the IT Act.

The matter is directed to be listed after 3 weeks for further hearing and in the meantime, liberty is granted to the advocate appearing for the Union to take the necessary data from all the chief secretaries of the states and the Standing counsels appearing for the states.