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‘Cannot bring hammer to kill an ant’: Bombay HC calls IT Rules ‘excessive’

“You cannot bring a hammer to kill an ant,” said the Bombay High Court on Friday while hearing petitions challenging the amended IT Rules against fake content on social media, according to Bar and Bench.

The division bench of Justices Gautam Patel and Neela Gokhale said the changes may be “excessive”, and also questioned who will fact-check the fact checking unit that is to be set up under the amended Rules.

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