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2016 Supreme(SC) 806

DIPAK MISRA, SHIVA KIRTI SINGH
Kamlesh Vaswani – Appellant
Versus
Union of India – Respondent


Advocates Appeared:
For the Petitioners:- Vijay Panjwani and Kundan Lal, Advocates.
For the Respondents:- Ms. Pinky Anand, ASG, Ms. Mahalakshmi Pavani, Sr. Advs., Ms. Manita Verma, Haripriya Padmanandan, S.N. Terdal, Rakesh Ranjan, T.C. Sharma, Parthiv Goswami, Prabal Bagchi, Ms. Somya Rathore, Ms. Kritika Sachdeva, Ms. Snidha Mehra, Haran Sethi, Ms. Surajita Pattanaik, Rishabh Jain, Ms. Madhavi Divan, Ms. Nidhi Kaang, D.S. Mahra, Ms. Sushma Suri, Prasanth P., Mohit Singh, Rahul Narayan, Ms. Jyotika Kalra, Ms. Sneha Kalita, Ms. Shiva Vijaykumar, Ms. Prerna Kumari, Advocates.

ORDER :

This is an application for intervention by the Supreme Court Women Lawyers Association through its General Secretary. Regard being had to the factual score, we think it appropriate to allow the application and accordingly the prayer for intervention stands allowed.

The interlocutory application stands disposed of.

Though the prayers made in these interlocutory applications are different yet the main assertions are the same and the prayers, in a way, proceed on the same path.

2. In I.A. No.2 of 2013, it has been prayed to direct the respondents to block the pornography websites, platforms, links, or downloading by whatever other internet means or name in order to prevent easy access whether in private or public and pass such other order/orders as may be deem fit.

3. In I.A. No.6 of 2015, the prayer is multi-fold. We think it apt to enumerate the prayers :-

"a) to issue appropriate directions to Ministry of Communication and Information Technology

(I) to take measures to promote the dissemination and improvement of filtering services.

(ii) to take strict measures to prevent distribution and access to pornography including measures regarding file sharing software.

(iii) to adopt variou













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