Delhi HC Dismisses Plea to Implead Musk in Account Suspension Petition

The Delhi High Court on Friday dismissed with Rs 25,000 prices a plea searching for to implead Twitter’s new proprietor Elon Musk as celebration to a petition difficult suspension of a consumer’s account for an alleged violation of its guidelines.

Justice Yashwant Varma termed the applying to be “thoroughly misconceived”.

“This application is thoroughly misconceived. It cannot possibly be disputed that a corporate entity is thoroughly represented and therefore, there was no need to file such an application. Accordingly, it is dismissed with a costs of Rs 25,000,” the decide mentioned.

At the outset, the court docket mentioned “even we need entertainment” and requested the counsel for the petitioner if he was critical in prosecuting the applying.

To this, advocate Raghav Awasthi, showing for the petitioner, mentioned his directions had been to press the applying.

He mentioned Musk was not solely the director but in addition holds substantial shares in Twitter and was a crucial celebration within the matter.

The utility mentioned that Musk has a really completely different method to free speech and, due to this fact, his views had been necessary to be heard.

The excessive court docket was listening to a petition by Dimple Kaul, who claimed that her Twitter deal with had greater than 2,55,000 followers and was used to submit instructional content material in relation to historical past, literature, politics, archaeology, Indic tradition, non-violence, equality, girls rights and many others.