Musician T.M. Krishna moves Madras HC challenging constitutionality of latest IT Rules

Court orders notice to Centre on writ petition filed by Carnatic musician seeking that the new rules be declared as ‘unconstitutional and ultra vires to the Information Technology Act of 2000’.

The Madras High Court on Thursday ordered notice to the Centre on a writ petition filed by acclaimed Carnatic musician T.M. Krishna to declare the as unconstitutional and ultra vires to the Information Technology Act of 2000. Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy directed petitioner's counsel Suhrith Parthasarathy to serve the papers on Additional Solicitor General R. Sankaranarayanan so that the Centre could file its counter affidavit within three weeks. The case would be heard next after four weeks, the judges said. In his affidavit, Mr. Krishna stated that as an artist and cultural and political commentator, he cherished the right to free expression and privacy guaranteed under the Constitution. “For me, privacy, like music itself, is an experience. When I think of privacy, I think of life, intimacy, experience, discovery, security, happiness, the lack of fear and the freedom to create. I think of liberty, dignity and choice as facets inherent in me and not just as an artist but as a human being,” he said.