New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday (June 2) heard Google’s petition difficult an earlier choice of a single bench that had directed the tech big to instantly take away a lady’s non-public picture from the search engine.
The girl had alleged that the pictures are being proven on the pornographic web site on Google with out his permission. She had posted her private images on Facebook and Instagram.
Google had filed a petition to flip the choice in its favour. The double bench of the High Court heard the matter for the primary time on June 2, and the following date of listening to is July 27.
Senior advocate Harish Salve appeared on behalf of Google. He argued in courtroom that Google is a search engine, not a social media. Therefore, the newly launched IT rules don’t apply to it.
Salve additionally mentioned within the courtroom that some content material could also be offensive in India however it’s permissible in different international locations. Therefore it can’t be eliminated globally.
A bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh issued discover to the Centre, Delhi authorities, Internet Service Providers Association of India, Facebook, the pornographic web site and the girl, on whose plea the only decide’s ruling had come, and sought their responses to Google’s plea by July 25.
