Supreme Court ordered to circulate the Judgment to DGPs of the State,all the Courts and Chief Secretaries to sensitize the police officers

Today the Supreme Court ordered to circulate the judgment of Shreya Singhal vs Union of India to all the Police Chief of all the States and to sensitize all the police officers on scrapping of  section 66 A of the I T Act and its continuous use by police even after scrapping.

PEOPLES’ UNION FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES Petitioner(s)

VERSUS

UNION OF INDIA & ORS. Respondent(s)
M.A. No. 3220/2018 in W.P. (Crl.) No. 199/2013 IA No.170338/2018- CLARIFICATION/DIRECTION) Date : 15-02-2019

The suggestion is that copies of this Court’s judgment in ‘Shreya Singhal v. Union of India’ [(2015) 5 SCC 1] will be made available by every High Court in this country to all the District Courts. 

This should be done within a period of eight weeks from today. Also, we direct the Union Government to make available copies of this judgment to the Chief Secretaries of all the State Governments and the Union Territories. 

This should be done within a period of eights weeks from today. The Chief Secretaries will, in turn, sensitize the police departments in this country by sending copies of this judgment to the Director General of Police in each State, within a period of eights weeks thereafter.