Delhi HC seeks Twitter’s response on lawsuit filed by Abhijit Iyer Mitra over ‘inaccessible’ account

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday sought Twitter’s response on a lawsuit filed by Abhijit Iyer Mitra, seeking restoration of his account on the website that has been “unilaterally banned” and made inaccessible to his followers.

Justice Mini Pushkarna issued a summons to the microblogging website on Iyer’s lawsuit and granted it time to file its response.

“Issue summons. Written submissions (be filed) in 30 days,” the judge said.

The court also sought the Centre’s stand on the lawsuit.

In his plea, Iyer said following his tweet in relation to the bail granted by the Supreme Court to Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair in a criminal case,