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2023 Supreme(Kar) 1302

KRISHNA S.DIXIT
X Corp. – Appellant
Versus
Union of India – Respondent


Advocates Appeared:
For the Parties : Sri. Aravind Datar and Sri. Ashok Haranahalli, Sr. Counsels A/w Sri. Manu P. Kulkarni., Sri. Ankit Agarwal, Sri. Sharan Balakrishna, Ms. Shloka Narayanan, Ms. Shristi Widge, Sri. Manoj Raikar and Sri. Abhishek Kumar, Advs., Sri. Shankaranarayanan, ASGI, Southern Zone A/w Sri. Kumar M.N., CGSPC.

Table of Content
1. blocking orders issued under it act (Para 1 , 2 , 3)
2. contentions of the petitioner challenging blocking orders (Para 4 , 5)
3. arguments from the respondents regarding legitimacy (Para 6 , 7 , 8)
4. court's analysis on compliance and procedural fairness (Para 9)

ORDER :

(Krishna S. Dixit, J.)

Petitioner, claiming to be an Intermediary under the Information Technology Act, 2000 (hereafter 'Act'), is knocking at the doors of Writ Court complaining against certain Blocking Orders issued by the respondents, whereby it is directed to bar access of certain information to the public, by effecting suspension of some accounts on Twitter i.e., www.twitter.com. In the alternative, petitioner seeks a direction at the hands of this court 'to modify the Blocking Orders to the extent of Table A of Annexure S to revoke the account level directions and instead identify specific tweets which are violative of Section 69A of the IT Act with reasons.' The respondents vide letter dated 27 June 2022 have warned the petitioner of serious consequences such as withdrawal of protection availing under section 79(1) of the Act and initiation of criminal proceedings as well if these orders are

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