Delhi HC directs social media platforms to take down ‘sexually explicit video’ circulating online

The Delhi High Court on late Wednesday ordered social media platforms to take all permissible steps to ensure that the further sharing, distribution, forwarding or posting of an offending video, circulating online since Tuesday, is “restrained forthwith”.

The “sexually explicit” video, circulating on social media platforms since November 29, purportedly shows a judicial officer and a woman. A single judge bench of Justice Yashwant Varma directed the defendants – social media platforms – to ensure the video is not shared, distributed, forwarded or posted any further. It further directed the Centre, through the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, to ensure that “all further steps as are warranted… are taken and a compliance report submitted in these proceedings”.