Centre backs Facebook in SC row with Delhi Assembly over summons

New Delhi: The Central government on Thursday backed Facebook, whose executives had refused to appear before a Delhi Assembly house panel, in the Supreme Court, saying the panel lacked any jurisdiction to summon them to depose before it.

“Public order and police are not in their domain. Hence, it is beyond their jurisdiction,” Solicitor General Tushar Mehta told a bench led by Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul in a statement, which seemed to back Facebook in its row with the Delhi government.

The bench said it would address all the complicated legal issues involved in the case during a final hearing which begins on December 2.