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New Delhi, July 09: The Supreme Court on friday said that the Union government’s petition seeking transfer of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the new IT Rules from different high courts to the top court will be taken up for hearing on July 16.
A bench of Justice AM Khanwilkar and Justice Sanjiv Khanna said, will be heard along with a pending matter related to regulating over the top (OTT) platforms.
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“We will tag the Centre’s plea with the Special Leave Petition (SLP),” the bench said, referring to the SLP in which the Supreme Court, in March, stayed proceedings in high courts on petitions over regulation of OTT platforms.
It can be seen that the transfer petition was filed by the central government in the apex court on Tuesday.
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