The Karnataka High Court quashed an FIR against a student who called a classmate “pretty” in an Instagram DM, holding that Gen Z lingo in a private chat cannot be criminalised.
The Gujarat High Court ruled that photographing an exam question paper and sharing it on WhatsApp does not amount to an offence under Section 66E of the IT Act, 2000. The Court said such conduct may be misconduct but not a privacy violation involving private images.
