Short title This Act may be cited as the Official Secrets Act. As introduced, the Bill included no public interest defence.
PART I – PRELIMINARY 1. A Delhi court in a 2009 judgement, in a case involving the publication of excerpts of a cabinet note in the Financial Express ten years earlier by Santanu Saikia, greatly reduced the powers of the act by ruling publication of a document merely labelled "secret" shall not render the journalist liable under the law.On 13 January 2004, the government withdrew its case against him to prevent having two of its ministries having to give contradictory opinions. OFFICIAL SECRETS ACT [Date of assent: 6th February, 1968.] WHEREAS it is expedient that the law relating to official secrets 2* * * should be consolidated and amended; It is hereby enacted as follows.- 4*[1.Short title, extent and application. Interpretation : 2. THE OFFICIAL SECRETS ACT, 1923 ACT NO. Official Secrets Act 1989, Section 10 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 28 July 2020. The first Official Secrets Act was passed with very little debate or opposition in 1889. 7 of 1987.]
An Act to consolidate and amend the law 2* * * relating to official secrets. Official secrets act, 1923 [Hindi] Central Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Rules, 2020; पौध संगरोध (भारत में आयात का विनियमन) (पांचवां संशोधन) आदेश, 2020
The second military intelligence report contradicted this, stating that there was no "official secret".
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There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Most notably, section 2 of the act, which was described as a “catch-all” section and much criticised, was repealed and replaced by the Official Secrets Act 1989. However, parts of the Official Secrets Act 1911 remain in force.
Section 2 of the Official Secrets Act, 1911, as amended by the Official Secrets Act, 1920 provides as follows:- "1.