HC bats for stricter norms to curb inflammatory social media posts

It was high time the government tightened the rules to deal with inflammatory posts on social media, the Bombay High Court said on Friday. A division bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Madhav Jamdar said that in a secular country like India, people should feel assured that they can live in peace with members of other religions.
“Regrettably, a trend is clearly discernible that in the name of exercise of a right, the liberty of free speech is being abused with bad faith.
“Notwithstanding the provisions of law in vogue, it is time the state introduces a regime of conduct with stricter norms, but satisfying the test of reasonableness, in exercise of power conferred by Article 19(2) to deal with rapid rise of absolutely avoidable, uncalled for and unwarranted inflammatory posts on social media,” it said.