Withdrawal of Section 66A of IT Act has not led to any case being withdrawn: RTI reply

All cases to which the Maharashtra government had applied section 66 A of the Information Technology Act since March 2015 were related to cyber crimes, hence withdrawing the section has not led to the closure of any of these cases in the state.

In all, 209 cases in which 66A had been applied and later withdrawn, in compliance with a Supreme Court ruling, in investigations and trial are continuing, an RTI query filed by The Indian Express has shown.

This was stated by the Maharashtra cyber police in response to details sought by The Indian Express on the number of cases to which Section 66 A had been applied even after it was struck down by the Supreme Court in March 2015,