Court orders social media platforms to remove controversial video on senior cop
The court of Judicial Magistrate Vibha Rana has ordered the social media platforms, including Facebook, You Tube and X, to immediately remove a controversial video on a senior police officer.
Passing the order, the court held, “No person, group, page, or digital entity shall post, repost, tag, upload or circulate the impugned content or any content of similar nature concerning the same individual(s) or institution(s), if the same is unauthenticated, unverified, fabricated, or intended to malign, defame or damage the dignity of any person or institution, especially the law enforcement agency.”
The court has drawn the inference that the content was digitally manipulated with the intent to mislead.
The order was pronounced by the court on an application moved by a social activist.
The court ordered independent digital news platforms, including any registered or unregistered digital news publishers, web-based portals, or mobile applications, who may have hosted, embedded or circulated the impugned content or any similar material, whether on their own websites or via third-party platforms, to remove such content immediately and to desist from any further publication, dissemination or circulation of the same or related material in any form, of such unauthenticated, defamatory or impersonated content in any manner.
