Delete ‘Defamatory Tweets’ Against Rajat Sharma: Delhi High Court To Congress Leaders
The Delhi High Court directed Congress leaders Jairam Ramesh, Pawan Khera, and Ragini Nayak to immediately delete “defamatory tweets” against senior journalist Rajat Sharma by today at 7 pm in compliance with an interim order passed on June 14.
Earlier, the social media platform X Corp., formerly Twitter, told the court that the video posted by Congress leaders on X showing Sharma verbally abusing her on live broadcast was not edited or fake.
Justice Manmeet Singh Arora directed the social media platform to unblock the tweets that had been geo-blocked, X claimed. A deadline of 5 pm today has been set for the same.
Hailing the judgement, Sharma took to X and wrote, “If truth increases or decreases, it is no longer truth; there is no limit to lies: Krishna Bihari Noor.”
The controversy erupted when Nayak accused Sharma of using abusive language directed at her during a live discussion on India TV on the 2024 Lok Sabha election result day. Several Congress leaders shared the video clip purportedly showing Sharma using foul language against Nayak.
Nayak posted the video on social media and filed a police complaint against Sharma on June 10. The following day, Sharma alleged that the party’s media cell had launched a false campaign against him as part of a conspiracy.
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On June 14, a coordinate bench passed an ex parte order directing X Corp. to take the social media posts and videos by Congress leaders.
The High Court pulled up X Corp. for not behaving like an intermediary or a neutral platform. Representing X, senior advocate Rajshekhar Rao argued that the X Corp had no “skin in the game” but was concerned with the way the single judge had passed the impugned order.
