The Information Technology Act, 2000
§66A — Punishment for sending offensive messages through communication service, etc.
Omitted by the Jan Vishwas (Amendment of Provisions) Act, 2023 (18 of 2023), s. 2 and Schedule (w.e.f. 30-11-2023).
Source & version
Official text: India Code (official) ↗
Official India Code text: The Information Technology Act, 2000, English PDF (bitstream 123456789/1999/1/A2000-21 (1).pdf, 462,882 bytes, sha256 45fb45419e5da89a...) fetched directly from indiacode.nic.in (Akamai edge, DNS via dns.google) on 2026-08-03. Extracted via pdftotext 26.07 -bbox and the @nexlex/ingest inline parser. Automated parse; footnotes and amendment history excluded. Spot-verified against the PDF; full clause-level proofread pending.
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