Google contended that the Delhi High Court, in its April 20 judgement, "mischaracterised" the search engine as a 'social media intermediary' or 'significant social media intermediary' as provided under the new rules.
A bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh issued notice to the Centre, Delhi government, Internet Service Providers Association of India, Facebook, the pornographic site and the woman, on whose plea the single judge's ruling had come, and sought their responses to Google's plea by July 25.