{"id":919626,"date":"2025-04-05T08:00:58","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T02:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=919626"},"modified":"2025-04-05T08:26:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T02:56:14","slug":"sc-refuses-to-entertain-pil-seeking-to-debar-kids-below-13-from-using-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/04\/05\/sc-refuses-to-entertain-pil-seeking-to-debar-kids-below-13-from-using-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"SC refuses to entertain PIL seeking to debar kids below 13 from using social media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Terming it a policy matter, the Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain a PIL seeking to debar children below 13 years from using social media.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is a policy matter. You ask Parliament to enact the law,&#8221; a Bench of Justice BR Gavai and Justice AG Masih said even as it granted liberty to petitioner Zep Foundation to make a representation to the authorities concerned. In case the petitioner made a representation, it would be considered within eight weeks, the Bench said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terming it a policy matter, the Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain a PIL seeking to debar children below 13 years from using social media. &#8220;It is a policy matter. You ask Parliament to enact the law,&#8221; a Bench of Justice BR Gavai and Justice AG Masih said even as it granted liberty to petitioner Zep Foundation to make a representation to the authorities concerned. In case the petitioner made a representation, it would be considered within eight weeks, the Bench said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-919626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-tribune","category-newspapers","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}