Social media platform Facebook (Now Meta) on Thursday filed its response within the Delhi High Court on the petition associated to the suspension of social media accounts.

Meta stated that it’s a personal entity and doesn’t discharge public operate and subsequently the jurisdiction of the High Court can’t be invoked towards it. Meta opposed the petition and sought its dismissal with out going into the benefit of it.

An affidavit filed on behalf of Meta said that the petitioner improperly sought to invoke this courtroom’s jurisdiction towards it.

The affidavit filed within the matter of Wokeflix stated that Meta will not be obligated to hold out a public responsibility and the Government doesn’t management the administration and day-to-day functioning of it.

It was additionally said that the petitioner’s Instagram account was reactivated inside 72 hours of being disabled. Meta supplied with a chance to enchantment the alleged actions taken towards their account as they obtained a discover to enchantment inside 30 days. The alternative earlier than the motion taken, as claimed by the petitioner, is opposite to legislation, which solely requires intermediaries to offer a chance to enchantment after the motion has been taken, in accordance with Rule 4 (8) of the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules 2021.

The High Court was listening to the petitions moved by Dimple Kaul, Suyash Deep Rai, Jasdeep Munjal, Wokeflix, Rachit Kaushik and Senior Advocate Sanjay Hegde. The petitioners have challenged the actions of suspension of their accounts by social media giants together with Twitter, YouTube and others.

The petitioner referred to as the motion arbitrary and towards the legislation and the Constitution. Their grievance is that their accounts had been suspended with out affording a chance for a listening to.