Intermediaries like Google India can be prosecuted for defamation if complaint made before amendment in IT Act: SC

It held that the defamation complaint was of January, 2009 -- prior to the substitution of Section 79 of the Act on October 27, 2009, and it was not open to the Google India Pvt Ltd to seek shelter under the earlier provisions.

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