Google has contended that Information Technology guidelines for digital media should not relevant to its search engine, and urged the Delhi High Court on Wednesday to put aside a single choose order which utilized the principles on the corporate whereas coping with a problem associated to removing of offending content material from the Internet.

The single choose’s choice had come whereas coping with a matter through which a girl’s pictures had been uploaded on a pornographic web site by some miscreants and regardless of courtroom orders the content material couldn’t be eliminated in entirety from the World Wide Web and “errant parties merrily continued” to re-post and redirect the identical to different websites.

A bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh issued discover to the Centre, Delhi authorities, Internet Service Providers Association of India, Facebook, the pornographic website, and the lady, on whose plea the only choose’s ruling had come, and sought their responses to Google’s plea by July 25.

The courtroom additionally mentioned that it was not going to subject any interim order at this stage.

Google has contended that the only choose, in his April 20 judgement, “mischaracterised” its search engine as a ”social media middleman” or ”important social media middleman” as supplied underneath the brand new guidelines.

“The single judge has misinterpreted and misapplied the New Rules 2021 to the appellant’s search engine. Additionally, the single judge has conflated various sections of the IT Act and separate rules prescribed thereunder, and has passed template orders combining all such offences and provisions, which is bad in law,” it has mentioned in its attraction in opposition to the April 20 judgement.