Question : Amendment to Penal Code

a) whether the Government has received any recommendations to amend the Indian Penal Code, Code of Criminal Procedures and the IT Act to curb cases of online harassment and hate speech;

b) if so, the salient features of the recommendations;

c) whether the Government has taken any decision on these recommendations; and

d) if so, the details thereof and the status thereof?

ANSWER

MINISITER OF STATE FOR LAW AND JUSTICE AND CORPORATE AFFAIRS

(SHRI P.P. CHAUDHARY)



(a) to (d): The information is being collected and will be laid on the Table of the House.