State: Applicable Across India

Year: 2024

Date: March 3, 2024

Source:

Censorship

All India Bar Association (AIBA) has written a letter to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking stringent penal action against tech giant, Google, alleging an attempt to tarnish the image of the Prime Minister.

Dr Adish C Aggarwala, Senior Advocate and Chairman of All India Bar Association (AIBA), in the letter, stated that Google has committed an offence under Sections 153-A (Promoting enmity between different groups on ground of religion, race etc), 500 (Punishment for Defamation) and 505 (Criminal Intimidation and insult and annoyance) of Indian Penal Code (IPC) for promoting enmity among groups by putting out misleading, mischievous information is in the public domain.

In the letter, Dr Aggarwala, also the President of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA), said that Gemini, the AI platform of Google, put out highly condemnable and false information about the Prime Minister of India in the public domain.