Karnataka’s fake news bill: Rs 10 lakh fine, 7-year jail for disrespecting sanatan symbols, promoting superstition

The draft bill includes setting up a state fake news regulatory authority tasked with a broad mandate to monitor and regulate the content disseminated on social media platforms. Defending the move, state IT-BT minister Priyank Kharge said the Congress government is not trying to change any policy but only making an effort to connect the dots that already exist and make a bill out of it.