The Centre on July 21 informed the Bombay High Court that it will not notify till September 4 the Fact Check Unit (FCU) under the recently amended Information Technology (IT) Rules to declare content to be fake on social media against the government.
Solicitor-General Tushar Mehta told a division Bench of Justices Gautam Patel and Neela Gokhale to adjourn the hearing in the matter as he has to appear before the Supreme Court.
He said, “My difficulty is that the constitutional bench of the Supreme Court will commence hearing arguments in matters pertaining to Article 370 [which gave a special status to Jammu and Kashmir] from August 2. I need to make some preparations for that.”
