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Within a twelvemonth of being empowered to directly contented takedown notices for online content, the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) issued an mean of astir 290 specified notices each day, according to MHA data.
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On March 13, 2024, the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) was designated arsenic the MHA’s bureau to execute the functions nether Section 79 (3) (b) of the Information Technology Act, 2000.
According to the MHA’s yearly study for the twelvemonth 2024-25, published connected Wednesday (March 25, 2026), till March 31, 2025, “1,11,185 suspicious online contented has been blocked nether Section 79(3)(b) of IT Act.”
Though Section 79(1) of the IT Act shields online platforms and societal media intermediaries from ineligible liability for contented posted by users, Section 79(3)(b) of the IT Act says that the shield volition not use if they neglect to instrumentality down the contented contempt being flagged by authorities authorities.
Social media intermediary X had challenged this proviso and the Sahyog portal, which enables constabulary crossed the state to nonstop such notices done a communal platform, successful the Karnataka High Court, but the petition was turned down by the tribunal successful 2025. The Hindu reported connected March 29, 2025, that nearly a 3rd of the 66 takedown notices sent to X by the I4C sought the removal of contented astir Union Ministers and Central authorities agencies.
Social media platforms and different intermediaries are required to region unlawful contented wrong 3 hours of the receipt of an bid of a tribunal of competent jurisdiction oregon a reasoned intimation by the Appropriate Government oregon its agency, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeiTY) informed Parliament recently.
Besides the MHA, determination are besides different authorities departments empowered nether the peculiar conception to contented takedown notices.
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Separately, connected March 24, the MHA informed the Lok Sabha that the fig of cyber information incidents reported successful India has risen sharply implicit the past 5 years, according to information tracked by the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), the nationalist bureau liable for responding to cyber threats.
CERT-In, which functions nether the provisions of Section 70B of the Information Technology Act, 2000, recorded 29.44 lakh cyber information incidents successful 2025, the highest fig successful the past 5 years. The fig of specified incidents was 20.41 lakh successful 2024.
As per CERT-In, the highest fig of cyber incidents reported is from National Capital Territory of Delhi.
