The Delhi High Court on Monday granted three weeks time to Twitter to placed on file that it has appointed a Resident Grievance Officer. The courtroom issued a discover to the social media platform and Centre in reference to a petition alleging non-compliance of IT Rules, 2021 by the US-based firm.
Twitter instructed the courtroom that the officer was appointed on May 28 in compliance with the principles. Justice Rekha Palli listed the case for subsequent listening to on July 06.
The plea, filed by lawyer Amit Acharya via advocates Akash Vajpai and Manish Kumar, states that Acharya, on May 26, claimed that “defamatory, false and untrue” tweets have been made by two verified customers and needed to boost the problem earlier than the Resident Grievance Officer. The petition alleged that the “objectionable tweets” have been made by TMC MP Mahua Moitra and journalist Swati Chaturvedi.
“However, the petitioner was unable to find the contact details of the Resident Grievance on the website of Twitter… for raising his grievance,” the petition learn, including that an e mail was additionally despatched to Twitter relating to the tweets.
The petitioner has additionally argued that Twitter has appointed a US resident because the Grievance Officer however the identical “is not in true sense implementation of the Rule 4 of Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Ethics Code) Rules 2021”.
“The petitioner has a legal and statutory right under the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Ethics Code) Rules 2021 to raise objection and complaint against any defamatory, untrue and false tweets or post on Twitter before its Resident Grievance Officer as it is a significant social media intermediary,” the plea learn.