Google claims – IT rules do not apply to its search engine, Delhi HC sent notice to the Center

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The Delhi High Court has asked the Centre, the Delhi government to explain its stand on the company’s plea that the new IT rules are not applicable on Google’s search engine.

Google LLC has claimed that IT regulations for digital media do not apply to its surge engine. The company on Wednesday urged the Delhi High Court to set aside the order of a single judge under which these rules were also imposed on the company during the hearing of the matter related to removal of objectionable content from the Internet.

The judgment was delivered by a single judge bench during the hearing of a case in which photographs of a woman were uploaded by some miscreants on a website showing pornographic material and were removed from the World Wide Web despite court orders. Couldn’t be removed as such. These photos were reposted on another site.

Court issued notice

A bench of Chief Justice DN Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh issued notices to the Centre, Delhi government, Internet Service Providers Association of India, Facebook, pornographic site and the woman on whose plea the single judge passed the order. did. The bench asked him to give his reply to Google’s plea by July 25. The court also said that it will not give any interim order in this phase yet.

Google has claimed that a single judge in his April 20 order “misrepresented” its search engine as a “social media intermediary” or a “significant social media intermediary” in accordance with the new rule. He said in the petition, ‘The single judge wrongly applied the new rules 2021 on the petitioner search engine and misinterpreted them. Apart from this, the single judge has consolidated various sections and various rules of the IT Act and passed orders by combining all such orders and provisions, which are not correct in law.

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