Delhi HC asks Twitter to remove objectionable material related to Hindu Goddess

Delhi High Court Friday asked Twitter to remove certain objectionable material relating to Hindu Goddess from its platform, observing that social media giant shall respect sentiments of general public as it was doing business for m.

bench said Twitter was doing a good job and people were happy with it.

“Things are going to be removed or not?” court asked counsel for Twitter.

“You should respect sentiments of general public as you are doing business for public at large. ir sentiments shall be given due importance... Why you should do things like this. You should remove this,” a bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh said.

“You remove it. You have done it in Rahul Gandhi’s case also,” bench ded.

Senior vocate Sidharth Luthra, representing Twitter, said court may mention in order and y will abide by direction.

court listed matter for furr hearing on November 30.

Petitioner itya Singh Deshwal said he came across some highly obnoxious posts about Maa Kaali put up by a user with name @AistRepublic and deity was represented in a disgraceful and outrageous manner.

petitioner, represented through senior vocate Sanjay Poddar, said he intimated to grievance officer of Twitter that content put by user was in grave contravention of Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 and non-compliance with rules shall make Twitter lose its legal immunity provided under Information Technology Act.

He claimed that Twitter repudiated that content in account is not of a category for which it takes action and refore, it cannot be removed.

plea sought direction to Twitter to remove objectionable content from its platform and also permanently suspend concerned used account.

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