The Delhi High Court on Tuesday issued notices to the central government, Facebook, Google and Twitter over an application seeking removal of groups like ‘Bois locker room’ to protect the safety and security of children.
The court had on Monday directed the city police to speed up its investigation of Bois Locker Room — a social media group on Instagram on which obscene messages and morphed pictures of underage girls were allegedly shared.
Former RSS ideologue KN Govindacharya had filed an interim petition in the Delhi High Court, seeking liability of social media platforms like Instagram over the content posted on their platform in the ‘Bois Locker Room’ case.
The ‘Bois Locker Room’ was an Instagram chat group of 17-18-year-old boys from affluent Delhi families who were discussing raping their classmates.
The notice on Tuesday was sent to the Ministry of Home Affairs, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and Ministry of Finance.
“The application is seeking urgent directions with respect to safeguard youngster and school students from the menace of fake and illegal accounts and groups on social media, which are impermissible in law and also against various orders of this Hon’ble Court,” said K. N. Govindacharya last week.
He said unwanted episodes like ‘Bois Locker Room’ reflect the failure of social media companies in performing their obligations.
The matter was heard by a bench comprising Justice RS Endlaw and Justice Sangita Dhingra Sehgal.
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