Delhi HC asks doctor to take down posts critical of Byju’s-owned edtech firm

OBSERVING THAT social media encourages people to post unsubstantiated content, the Delhi High Court on Tuesday, in yet another order, restrained a Twitter user from posting or sharing anything defamatory, derogatory and deprecatory against edtech firm WhiteHat Jr, its management and its employees, and asked him to take down certain existing tweets criticising the company.

The Byju’s-owned company, which provides online coding classes to children, has this week taken two social media users – an engineer and a doctor – to court for posting allegedly defamatory content and running an “unsubstantiated narrative” against it and the curriculum being offered by it to the children.