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Delhi HC asks LG, Centre to reply to plea on online content takedown notices
The Political and Business Daily
|May 30, 2025
THE Delhi High Court has sought the response of the Lieutenant Governor on a plea challenging a notification issued by him empowering police to issue takedown notices for social media content.
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A bench of Chief Justice DK Upadhyaya and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela issued notice to the LG and the Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and asked them to file replies within six weeks.
The court listed the matter for further hearing on September 17.
The bench was hearing a plea filed by Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) challenging the legality and constitutional validity of the notification issued by the LG that designated Delhi Police as the nodal agency under the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, empowering it to issue takedown notices for online content.
This story is from the May 30, 2025 edition of The Political and Business Daily.
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