The govt has decided to abolish section 57 of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Act, says the Law Minister Anisul Huq on Wednesday.

The decision was approved at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday at the Secretariat.

The section 57 stipulates: ‘If any person deliberately publishes or transmits or causes to be published or transmitted in the website or in electronic form any material which is fake and obscene or its effect is such as to tend to deprave and corrupt persons who are likely, having regard to all relevant circumstances, to read, see or hear the matter contained or embodied in it, or causes to deteriorate or creates possibility to deteriorate law and order, prejudice the image of the State or person or causes to hurt or may hurt religious belief or instigate against any person or organization, then this activity of his will be regarded as an offense.’

The provisions contradict with articles 27, 31, 32 and 39 of the constitution, the lawyer said.