The Delhi High Court has passed an interim order today directing the social media platforms for blocking and stop the circulating the judicial officer video which allegedly shows him in a compromising position with a woman from his staff.

Justice Yashwant Varma while giving the order said that the video is explicit and is sure to cause imminent, grave and and irreparable harm to the privacy rights of the persons in the video.

The Court in its order says that keeping in mind the content of video which is sexually explicit in nature it is likely to harm the privacy rights of the plaintiff an ad interim ex parte injunction is clearly warranted.

The Court has said that the defendant shall take all permissible steps to ensure that the further sharing, distribution, forwarding or posting of the offending video is stopped.

The order was passed when the lady who was in the video stated that it was sfabrticated.It was told that a short video clip had gone viral on social media where a judicial officer was seen in a compromising position allegedly with one of his court staff.

The time stamp showed that the video was from March 2022.

The Delhi Court order also noted that entire court had taken cognisance of the video on its administrative side and passed a resolution on November 29.

The Registrar General also has written to the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY) for taking an action to block the video.

The Court, therefore, directed MEITY to take all steps as warranted in terms of the Registrar General’s communication and a file a compliance report.

New Delhi (ILNS): The Delhi High Court while hearing a case related to child pornography has directed the police agencies to forward sexually explicit material relating to the petitioner to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) to identify the persons who are re-uploading the offensive content in India.

A single-Judge bench led by Justice Vibhu Bakhru was hearing a petition by a 24-year-old woman whose photographs which had been taken when she was a minor had been uploaded on the internet by her boyfriend.

After becoming aware that the accused had placed her photographs on the net, the petitioner filed a complaint against the accused before the Special Cell, Cyber Crime Department, Delhi Police and also sent notices to the Social media platforms for removal of the URL / webpages, however no caution was taken by the respondents after which the petitioner had to approach the High Court.

Advocate Anurag Ahluwalia, learned counsel appearing for Government of India submitted that NCRB acts as a nodal agency for technical and operational functions of on-line Cyber Reporting Portal: www.cybercrime.gov.in. The incidents reported on the portal are shared with the law enforcement agencies. NCRB has also entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with NCMEC to receive Cyber Tipline reports relating to the suspected CP content.

Facebook, through an affidavit submitted that it has implemented a number of measures to combat the spread of child porn (CP) including working with National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) which is a non- profit organization involved in helping to find missing children, reduce child sexual exploitation and prevent child victimization.  

Google LLC informed the Court that it has a dedicated web form that can be used by government agencies to report content that may be unlawful, including CSAM related material, which is then expedited for review by the relevant support teams. This web form can be accessed at http://supportgoogle.com/legal/contact/Ir_gov_india.

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The bench has directed also directed the Social media platforms to use such measures as available with them to remove the contents which are similar to the contents of the URLs in the present case.

Read the order here;