JUDGMENT

Prathiba M. Singh, J.

I.A. 855/2019

1. The Plaintiffs – Swami Ramdev and Patanjali Ayurved Ltd. have filed the present suit against the Defendants- Facebook Inc., (Defendant No. 1)

Google Inc., (Defendant No. 2) YouTube LLC, (Defendant No. 3) Google Plus, (Defendant No. 4) Twitter International Company, (Defendant No. 5) and Ashok Kumar (`John Does‟), (Defendant No. 6) seeking a permanent and mandatory injunction, as also damages. For the sake of convenience, the Defendants and their various websites, social media platforms, URLs, weblinks etc., are collectively referred to as ―Platforms‖.

2. The allegation of the Plaintiffs is that various defamatory remarks and information including videos, based on a book titled ‗Godman to Tycoon – the Untold Story of Baba Ramdev‘ are being disseminated over the Defendants‟ platforms. The Plaintiffs submit that the defamatory content contained in the said book was subject matter of a judgment passed in CM (M) 556/2018, wherein a ld. Single Judge of this Court had restrained the publisher and author from publishing, distributing and selling the book without deleting the offending portions. The allegations contained in the videos, which have