A division bench comprising Justice Shekhar B Saraf and Justice Prashant Kumar handed the order whereas listening to a petition filed by Sharad Chandra Srivastava and others.
The court docket instructed the petitioners to supply the related URL hyperlinks to the social media corporations to facilitate the elimination course of. The subsequent listening to within the case has been scheduled for November 11.
The petition alleged that one Shashank Shekhar, who operates a number of channels on YouTube, Fb, and Instagram, has been posting derogatory and defamatory movies in opposition to Rambhadracharya, who can be the Vice Chancellor of the Jagadguru Swami Ram Bhadracharya Divyang College in Chitrakoot, Madhya Pradesh.
Regardless of objections raised by Rambhadracharya’s followers, the movies reportedly stay on-line, and no motion has been taken by the involved platforms to take away them, it mentioned.
The plea additionally urged the central and state governments to border and strictly implement guidelines for regulating social media platforms, highlighting the necessity to curb the unfold of defamatory content material on-line.
The petitioners contended that the content material was not solely defamatory but additionally mocked Rambhadracharya’s incapacity, as he misplaced his eyesight in childhood.
Throughout the listening to, the state authorities knowledgeable the court docket that the Office of the State Commissioner for Individuals with Disabilities has already taken cognisance of the difficulty and issued a discover to Shekhar, directing him to look earlier than the fee on October 18.
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