New Delhi: Relief for Facebook, the Supreme Court on Thursday said that appreciating evidence in a criminal case related to Delhi riots was not in the jurisdiction of the Delhi Committee led by Raghav Chadha, which should not make a prime facie statement about the prosecution of the social media giant Riot case.
The above court delivered its verdict on the application submitted by Facebook India Vice President and MD Ajit Mohan and others challenged the call issued by the Peace Committee and Harmoni Delhi for failing to appear before the witness with the Northeast Delhi riot problem.
“The social media platform has the strength and potential to influence people on the border.
The debate and post on these platforms – such as Facebook – have the potential to polarize the community because many community members do not have its advantages to verify the truth of the content,” The Top Court said , “Because the Delhi Majide itself has no jurisdiction over the situation of law and order and police, the Peace and Harmoni Committee will not have a business to comment on Delhi’s riots, especially criminal cases and previous evidence in December last year, Peace and Harmony Committee has transferred the court Who wants to intervene to intervene in the request submitted by Mohan and others last year.
On October 15 last year, the center told the court to the process of peace and harmony committee was “without jurisdiction” due to problems related to the law.
and orders.
Court APEX said that the order of September 23 asked the Assembly panel not to take forced action against Mohan, it will continue until the order further.
The request submitted by Mohan, Facebook India Online service Pvt Ltd and Facebook Inc.
has argued that the committee has no power to call or hold Applicant By breaking its special rights because it fails to appear and it exceeds its constitutional limit.
They have challenged September 10 and 18 years ago the notification issued by the Committee who was looking for the presence of Mohan before the panel investigating Delhi riots in February and the Facebook role in the spread of hatred speeches.
The Delhi Majide said that there was no coercion taken against Mohan and he was only called by his committee to appear as a witness in connection with the Northeast Delhi Riot.
In a written statement filed in the upper field, the Delhi Majide said that Mohan had not issued a call for violating privileges.
(With input from agency)
Delhi Assembly Panel Notification: Relief for Facebook at the Supreme Court
