The new guidelines of the Government of India have come into force for social media and OTT platforms.
After a few days of uproar, all social media companies have implemented the new rule on their platform.
Meanwhile, Google has said that the new rules of the Government of India do not apply to the search engine.Google has filed a petition in the Delhi High Court asking that its case be looked into separately.
Google has said in its petition that since it is a search engine and not a social media platform, the new laws do not apply to it.The Delhi High Court has sought a response from the Central Government and the Delhi Government on this petition of Google.The next hearing of the case will be on July 27.
Google has sought quashing of the single judge's order in the Delhi High Court, under which it has been asked to remove objectionable content from the Internet.
The judgment was delivered by a single judge bench during the hearing of a case in which photographs of a woman were uploaded by some miscreants on a website showing pornographic material and were removed from the World Wide Web despite court orders.
Could not be removed as such and these photos were reposted on another site.
It has been said by Google that it is not a social media company. In such a situation, he cannot be pressured to remove any content within 24 hours after the complaint, as it does not come under the purview of the new law.
Google has claimed that a single judge in his April 20 order "misrepresented" its search engine as a "social media intermediary" or a "significant social media intermediary" in accordance with the new rule.
A bench of Chief Justice DN Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh issued notices to the Centre, Delhi government, InternetServiceProvidersAssociation of India, Facebook, pornographic site and the woman on whose plea the single judge issued the order.
The bench asked him to respond to Google's plea by July 25. The court also said that it will not pass any interim order at this stage.
It said in the petition, "The Single Judge has wrongly applied and misinterpreted the new Rules 2021 on the petitioner search engine.
Apart from this, the single judge has consolidated various sections and various rules of the IT Act and passed orders by combining all such orders and provisions, which are not correct in the law.
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