Digital Media Rules: Supreme Court To Consider Taking Over All Cases

The Supreme Court's decision came days after the Bombay High Court put on hold a part of new rules that seeks to regulate content on digital news websites.

The Supreme Court will consider transferring to itself all cases linked to the new Information and Technology and giving it a combined hearing. The hearing will be held after six weeks. The top court's decision came days after the Bombay High Court put on hold a part of new rules that seeks to regulate content on digital news websites. The High Court put on hold the implementation of rules which required digital news media to compulsorily follow the code of conduct laid down by the Press Council of India, a self-regulating press watchdog, and the country's cable TV code.