The Kerala High Court has refused to litigation of public interest (pill) that calls the central government to ban whatsapp in India.
Writ petition has been submitted by Omakuttan KG software engineer.
Judicial Chief Justice S Manikumar and Justice Shaji P Chaly rejected the petition directly to all prayers.
What the court said was premature for the court to prohibit messaging services.
It must be the work of investigation and court institutions to decide whether messages from WhatsApp are being manipulated by users not to be used as evidence.
“We do not tend to entertain one of the prayers sought, we stopped the direct petition,” the court refused the request.
Why the Petitioner wants WhatsApp forbidden in India Petition submitted by Omanakuttan accuses that there is a wide scope of manipulation.
At the end of the user and because it cannot track the origin of the message circulating using the service.
Further petitions asked why WhatsApp could not comply with the Indian law when it was in accordance with the European Union GDPR policy.
Also asked the court to issue direction instructions to investigate agents and courts not to rely on content from WhatsApp for their investigation or trial for WhatsApp by the Director General of Indian Competition Commission (CCI).
CCI has searched for certain information about whatsapp new privacy policies.
WhatsApp urged the court to the UE ISS direction to the authorities concerned not to take coercive action until the next hearing date.
Prohibition of WhatsApp in India: This is what the Kerala High Court said
