On The Delhi High Court has granted 10 days time to Amicus Curiae Senior Advocate Saurabh Kirpal for filing documents in Removal of Objectionable Content from Internet matter.
This includes a note on the aspect as to how the objectionable content with regard to a woman can be removed from the internet and the role of intermediaries in doing so.
Saurabh Kirpal who has recently been appointed as Amicus Curiae also sought time to file the relevant guidelines framed under the Information Technology Act on the aspect which the Court allowed him.
It ordered:
"Mr. Sidhant Kumar Marwah, learned counsel assisting Mr. Saurabh Kripal, learned Senior Advocate is directed to file the relevant rules, guidelines and the note of the learned Amicus Curiae within ten days with an advance copy to all the parties,"
The present petition concerns a woma who sought directions on the Centre to block websites operating as Pornographic Sites under pseudo names. The plea also sought specific directions on the respondents to block any nude, sexually explicit or morphed photos of the woman appearing on their sites.
In the previous hearings, the Cout has asked the Centre, Google, YouTube and Delhi Police Cyber Cell to take steps for removing links or sites carrying objectionable photos and videos of the woman from the internet.
Earlier this year, the High Court had held that photographs taken from Facebook and Instagram accounts uploaded on pornographic website without the consent of concerned person amounts to an offence under Sec. 67 of the IT Act and that such an Act, even if the photographs are not in itself obscene of offensive, without the consent of the party would amount to breach of person's privacy.
Furher in the order, the Court also held that for an order directing the removal or access disablement of offending content to be effective even within India would serve no purpose of preventing irreparable harm to a litigant if it can't be realised. A Search Engine must block the search results throughout the world, it added.
The matter shall bwe next heard on Nov 25th, 2021.
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