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The Delhi High Court on Friday deferred to August 27, hearing on the appeal filed by WhatsApp and its parent company Facebook, challenging the order passed by the Single-Judge Bench, wherein the Single Judge refused to interfere with the Competition Commission of India's probe for investigation

The micro-blogging platform’s refusal to conform to amended IT rules led the centre to approach the Delhi High Court, which pulled it up. The company has now asked for more time to comply with the rules.

Supreme Court refuses to quash the summons issued by the Peace and Harmony Committee of the Delhi Legislative Assembly to Facebook India Vice President Ajit Mohan, in relation to Delhi Riots, 2020

As in the case of the new IT rules—aimed at controlling social media majors Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp, as well as digital news portals like The Wire, Scroll and The Quint—the objective behind the draft e-commerce rules is shadowing.

The Counsel for the Competition Commission of India (CCI) has agreed that no precipitate action will be taken against WhatsApp of Facebook before the hearing of the case against a notice from the CCI.

Messaging giant Whatsapp has defended its new privacy policy in the Delhi High Court, stating that the latest update will not affect the privacy of personal messages of users.

Senior Advocate Harish Salve appeared for WhatsApp, while Senior Advocate and former Additional Solicitor General (ASG) Mukul Rohatgi represented Facebook.

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday reserved its order on the petition filed by social media giants Facebook and WhatsApp challenging the Competition Commission of India (CCI) order directing investigation against the two over the new privacy policy of the messaging application.

The Bench of Chief Justice Akil Kureshi was hearing the application of Arindam Bhattacharjee, who is accused to have instigated division among religious groups and creating an environment of misinformation.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued notice on a PIL seeking directions to the Centre to have a mechanism to track total GST paid on the OIDAR (Online Information and Database Access or Retrieval Services) services used by Non-Taxable Online Indian recipients under reverse charge basis.