BANGALORE: Karnataka High Court on Tuesday, July 26, issued a notice to the ruling Bharati Janata Party government at the Centre with regard to the order asking to block nearly 1,100 Twitter accounts by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.
The ruling was issued by a single division bench led by Justice Krishna S. Dixit following arguments by senior counsel Mukul Rohatgi, who represented Twitter and emphasised that if the blocking order is not lifted, Twitter's entire company will cease. According to the guidelines, reasons for blocking accounts must be recorded and provided to the microblogging platform, which is not being done.
Twitter (the petitioner) is answerable to account holders for blocking their accounts, he submitted. The bench set the subject for a hearing on August 25 and promised to consider the central government's counsel's request to hold the hearing in closed session.
Twitter said in its petition that banning orders issued by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeiTY) under the IT Act are excessive and disproportionate.
According to the microblogging network, MeiTY has delivered a notice warning of dire penalties for non-compliance with blocking orders. The warning also warned of criminal charges and noted that failure to comply with the instructions to block accounts would be a missed opportunity.
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