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Court asks Facebook, Orkut to remove objectionable pictures
Thursday December 22, 2011 08:30:21 AM,
IANS
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New Delhi: A Delhi
court has ordered several social networking companies like
Facebook, Google and Orkut to remove some pictures from their
websites.
The court of administrative civil judge Mukesh Kumar was hearing a
petition filed by Mufti Aijaz Arshad Qasmi who objected to images
hurting religious sentiments.
The court said: "The defendants are directed to remove the
photographs from their social networking sites".
The court ruling came after viewing photographs shown by Qasmi,
which the court said had "content of defamation and derogation
against the sentiments of every community."
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