Apology will not be enough to avoid criminal proceedings for social media posts: Supreme Court

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You will now have to face consequences for abusive and vulgar posts on social media and an apology will not be enough to waive criminal proceedings, the Supreme Court on Friday ruled...

Dismissing the petition against actor and former Tamil Nadu MLA S Ve Shekher for sharing a post which made indecent remarks against women journalists, the court said that one has to be very careful while using social media...

The 72-year-old actor had shared a post on Facebook which he later deleted after realising the mistake..

According to his lawyer, the actor, who has a wide following on social media, shared someone else's post inadvertently without reading it as his vision was blurred at that time...

The bench of Justices B R Gavai and Prashant Kumar Mishra, however, expressed surprise at how the actor had shared the post so casually without reading the contents and refused to interfere in the trial proceedings against him...

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