committee constituted under Rule 7 to examine the request to block content.

committee constituted under Rule 7 had conducted 18, 40, 70, 39 and 53 meetings for hearing and examination of the blocking requests in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 respectively.

Rule 7 allows the committee to examine the request to block content. It says, “The request along with the printed sample content of the alleged offending information or part thereof shall be examined by a committee consisting of the Designated Officer as its chairperson and representatives, not below the rank of joint Secretary in Ministries of Law and Justice, Home Affairs, Information and Broadcasting and the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team appointed under sub-section(1) of section 70B of the [IT] Act.”