Clicking and Sending Question Paper Images on WhatsApp Does Not Amount to Breach of Privacy Under the IT Act: Gujarat High Court
The Gujarat High Court has held that clicking photographs of an examination question paper and sharing them through WhatsApp does not amount to a violation of privacy under Section 66E of the Information Technology Act, 2000. The Court observed that a question paper cannot be treated as the private area of a person and therefore the offence relating to violation of privacy was not attracted. The Court accordingly quashed the…