The Uttarakhand High Court imposed a Cost of Rs Fifty Thousand on Facebook for failing to file Counter Affidavit on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking direction to the respondents to frame guidelines to deal with cases of online extortion.
Uttarakhand High Court while hearing a PIL raising the issue of man-animal conflict in the State directed the Principal Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, State of Uttarakhand to constitute a committee headed by the Principal Conservator of Forest to look into the matter.