Supreme Court To Hear Pleas Accusing Twitter Of Spreading Hate On November 22
NDTV
In February, the Supreme Court had issued notice to the Central government and tagged Mr Goenka's plea along with another similar matter already pending before the top court.
The Supreme Court is expected to hear on Monday pleas seeking directions to the government to enact a law so that social media platform, Twitter can be prosecuted for their alleged "anti-India tweets".
A Bench of Justices AM Khanwilkar and CT Ravikumar will hear pleas filed by Vinit Goenka, former national co-convener of the BJP IT cell, advocates Vinit Jindal, Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay and others on the issue.
Mr Goenka, in his plea, had sought that a mechanism be framed to check advertisements and paid content on Twitter that may be hateful, inciting, or seditious and to rein in social media accounts "in order to stop the hatred, fake, investigative and other news which are contrary to the law of the country or violates the law of the country".
In February, the Supreme Court had issued notice to the Central government and tagged Mr Goenka's plea along with another similar matter already pending before the top court.
