New Delhi: Destroying Plea submitted by Facebook India Vice President and MD Ajit Mohan challenges the call issued by the Peace Committee and Harmoni Delhi, the Supreme Court on Thursday decided that the panel was in the right to summon Mohan as a witness.
However, SC also said the committee, led by AP MLA Raghav Chadha and asked Delhi riots, could not judge pre-pre-to-related problems and order, Delhi police and information technology, or force representatives, or force representatives From the social media platform to overthrow them.
In assessing 188 pages that issued the power of the Delhi Assembly’s privilege and lack of jurisdiction over the law and order and police Delhi, both of which vest with the center, the judicial bench Sanjay K T-shirt, Dinesh Maheshwari and Hrishikesh Roy and because assembly cannot be melegislate in these two subjects As well as problems related to information technology, the committee also could not touch these problems while asking alleged Facebook’s role in helping the spread of hatred speech during Delhi riots.
However, he said the committee had a legitimate role in trying to ask questions related to the general public Delhi and therefore given the right to call anyone, including Facebook officials, to appear in front of a witness.
Writing Judgment, Kisiman Kaul said, “Assembly, more in the nature of the Delhi Assembly with its own peculiarity (ie, excluding certain strengths), even if given amplitude and the widest strength that should be done by the committee, cannot step on the toes or more precisely the entity shoes Having exclusive jurisdiction on the grounds of list I (Union list).
“It was also said that the Delhi government had no legislative jurisdiction on the action of information technology, which was under the center of the center.
Ajit Mohan has opposed the call from the Committee to join the trial in Delhi riots.
“In a larger context, the concept of peace and harmony runs far outside the law and order and the police, more in the view of the governance ‘on the ground’ is in the hands of the government of Delhi,” the bench said, upholding the arrangement of the committee.
However, it took a serious view at the Chadha press conference on August 31 last year after issuing a notification to Mohan, who had challenged the notification on the grounds that he had emerged and answered questions before the Parliament Committee on a similar problem.
“In this process, Chadha stated that it was, Prima Facie, appeared that Facebook colluded with personal interests during Delhi’s riots in February, 2020.
Comments were also made by the Chair that Facebook must be treated as co-accused and independent investigations must be carried out in their role in Riots, “SC noted in his assessment.
“The statement and conclusions mentioned above are completely outside the visit of the committee and should not be made.
That it might raise concerns in the minds of the applicants also cannot be doubted,” said three Judge Bench.
The bench also said, “The Committee cannot have a misunderstanding that it is a kind of prosecution agent who can start the path of holding guilty people and direct the submission of additional chargesheets to them.
We, thus, this opinion has this aspect must be remembered by the committee so as not to damage The process in the future and causes other challenges.
“” We have the view that in any possibility, as speculative as possible, if the committee strives to cross the road relating to the excluded entries, namely law and order and police, representatives of Facebook will appear before the committee Will appear in their right to refuse to answer such questions and approaches cannot be taken with the possibility of inviting the privilege process.
This is a complicated balance to be followed and we are not trying to provide reasons for the applicant’s representatives to no answer questions and frustration of the trial Sebe.
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“SC said it provided this limited protection to Facebook officials to ward up the possibility of poser for it if the committee began the legal and ordered fields, police and IT.” We are quite sure that such possibilities will not appear, given the important role carried out by the Committee and that it will accept wise suggestions.
So much and not far away, “he said.