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2023 Supreme(Online)(Ker) 54378

IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM
A. Muhamed Mustaque, Shoba Annamma Eapen, JJ
GOOGLE INC – Appellant
Versus
...... – Respondent


Advocates:
For the Appellants/Petitioners: C.M. Andrews, Adarsh Mathew, Santhosh Mathew, B.G. Harindranath, Manu S., T.C. Govindaswamy, Anitha Mathai Muthirenthiy, B.S. Swathi Kumar, Johnson Gomez, Rajit, M.N. Suresh Kumar, Suvin R. Menon, C.A. Chacko, Riji Rajendran, Princy Xavier, Smt. Princy Xavier, Jacob Sebastian
For the Respondents: Senior Government Pleader, DSG of India

Table of Content
1. review of google's obligations as an intermediary and fundamental rights. (Para 1 , 2)
2. intermediaries must act as required by law. (Para 3)
3. court confirms that prior observations stand. (Para 4)

ORDER

A.Muhamed Mustaque, J.

These review petitions are filed by Google Incorporation, one of the respondents in the writ petitions. They have come up with this review to expunge certain observations in the judgment. This Court dealt with an issue regarding judicial information policy in the judgment under review. The Court was called upon to decide the issue in the context of publication of judgments online.While elucidating on the point of law on the rights of the litigants, premised on the right to be forgotten, we stated that a litigant cannot claim and connected cases such a right in relation to records of recent origin and further observed that these rights can be claimed by them in future. Recognising it is a fundamental right, this Court observed that Google cannot ignore those fundamental rights and that the safe harbour principles available to them as intermediaries cannot be a defence to honour the fundamental rights of citizens. It was also observed that Goog

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