Three days after criminal proceedings against it were quashed by the Delhi High Court,Yahoo India got relief from a trial court too,which dismissed a case against it for allegedly hosting objectionable content on its site. Administrative Civil Judge Praveen Singh imposed a cost of Rs 5,000 on plaintiff Mufti Aijas Arshad Quasmi for impleading the company as a party without disclosing any cause of action against it. The civil court had on December 20 last year issued summons to 22 social networking websites,including Yahoo,asking them to remove anti-religious or anti-social contents from their sites.
