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The Karnataka High Court on Friday reserved its order on the petition filed by Twitter Inc, challenging the blocking orders issued to it by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology...
The petitioner chose to withdraw the petition after the Court suggested her to move the Bombay High Court first.
If reasons were not recorded in such blocking orders, there would be a possibility of their being manufactured at a later stage, counsel for Twitter argued.
Twitter argued before the Karnataka high court that the firm was asked to block entire accounts, although Section 69A of the IT Act does not permit that. It only permits to block information, or a tweet.
Twitter has approached the Karnataka High Court challenging certain orders issued by the Central government asking the microblogging platform to take down certain content.