The Supreme Court has agreed to examine the validity of Information Technology Rules making it mandatory for a website owner to screen content and exercise online censorship of the contents posted on the portal.

A bench of Justices T S Thakur and S J Mukhopadhaya issued the notice to the Centre and all the states on a PIL filed by a company which runs a portal challenging Information Technology (Intermediaries Guidelines) Rules, 2011.

The company pleaded with the apex court that the rules be declared as illegal, null and void as they are ultravires of  the Constitution.