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Objectionable internet content: Court fines petitioner
Friday April 20, 2012 11:13:26 AM,
IANS
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New Delhi: A Delhi
court, hearing a civil case against various social networking
sites for allegedly displaying objectionable content, Thursday
slapped a fine of Rs.200 on a petitioner for seeking an urgent
review of its order which dropped the names of Google India and
others from the suit.
Administrative Civil Judge Parveen Singh slapped the fine on
petitioner Mufti Aijaz Arshad Qasmi for making the plea without
any preparation.
The court would next hear the case May 5.
Qasmi's counsel Santosh Pandey moved an another application
Wednesday saying that the government should be asked to join the
case proper adjudication of an issue that was related to a
national issue.
The court was hearing a case filed by petitioner Qasmi, an Islamic
researcher linked to a website run by the Islamic Peace Foundation
of India, seeking removal of objectionable content from various
websites and social networking sites.
Qasmi in a fresh list of accused submitted April 12 sought to
prosecute - Facebook India, Facebook Inc, Google Inc, Orkut,
Youtube Inc and Blogspot.
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