Proposal to ban online vape info under IT Act is anti-people, say consumers and experts

Opposed a proposed IT Act amendment that would have banned publishing any information about ENDS online, framed as part of a fake-news crackdown. Quotes NEHU professor Dr R N Sharan on the public-health cost of information gags, and advocate Dr Farrukh Khan on the amendment’s constitutionality — noting it would follow a pattern of departments (Customs, now IT) relying on an advisory a Delhi High Court judgment had already called non-binding on states.