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By Ritika Jain Bombay High Court said the amendments to the Information and Technology Rules 2023 was unconstitutional and struck down the Centre’s Fact Checking Unit (FCU) after observing that the expressions “fake or false or misleading” were undefined and “vague”. The rules would result in a “chilling effect” and the “absence of sufficient safeguards” would “tend to interfere” with fundamental rights to free speech, ‘tie-breaker’ judge AS Chandurkar said. The high court stressed there was no additional “right to the truth” and the government was not responsible to ensure that citizens were …

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