Remove objectionable content, respect feelings of people: Delhi HC to Twitter
The division bench of Chief Justice D.N Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh told the counsel representing Twitter that it should give importance to the sentiments of the people and remove the content.
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The court adjourned the case for further consideration on November 30. (File)THE Delhi High Court Friday asked Twitter to remove allegedly objectionable content related to a Hindu goddess and observed that the micro-blogging site should respect the feelings of the people.
The division bench of Chief Justice D.N Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh told the counsel representing Twitter that it should give importance to the sentiments of the people and remove the content. The court, however, did not pass any formal order for the removal of the content.
“You remove this content. I don’t think the petitioner will even press this matter,” said the court, during the hearing of a petition seeking removal of the content.
Senior Advocate Siddharth Luhtra, representing the micro-blogging site, submitted that the court may mention it in the order and the content will be removed. He also told the court they are cooperating with the police in the matter and have disabled one account.
The court, however, said it would not tell Twitter what to do. “You remove the content. You have done in Rahul Gandhi’s case also,” it added, referring to a tweet by Gandhi in which he had uploaded the photographs of a minor rape victim’s parents.
Advocate Aditya Singh Deshwal in the petition said that he had come across “highly obnoxious posts” about Hindu goddess Maa Kaali and intimated Twitter’s Grievance Officer about the same. Despite this, the content was not removed, the court was told. Deshwal also told the court that a complaint was made to the police in this regard.
The court adjourned the case for further consideration on November 30.
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