Supreme Court restrains high courts from proceeding in pleas challenging IT rules
The bench said it would not interfere with interim orders already passed by high courts.
The Supreme Court today stayed further proceedings of high courts in petitions challenging the new IT rules, LiveLaw reported today.
The order was passed by Justices AM Khanwilkar and Abhay S Okha. The bench said it would not interfere with interim orders passed by high courts.
"We are not touching any interim orders," LiveLaw quoted the bench as saying.
The order said: "We direct stay of further proceedings before the high courts in the respective cases or to be filed hereafter until the next date of hearing involving challenge to IT rules or cable TV amendment rules which are subject matter of proceedings in this set of cases."
So far, the high courts of Kerala, Madras and Bombay have passed interim orders in petitions challenging the IT rules.
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