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Offensive content: Facebook, Google comply; 'spare us action'

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Posted: Feb 06, 2012 at 1222 hrs IST

New Delhi Facebook India today filed its compliance report before the Delhi court which had ordered it and 21 other websites to remove offensive content from their websites.

Google India also told the court that it has removed certain web pages from the Internet on which objections were raised by petitioners.

Meanwhile, Facebook, Yahoo and Microsoft told the court that they have no role to play in the case and that there was no cause for action against them in the matter.

Additional Civil Judge Praveen Singh also posed a query to the counsel appearing for petitioner Mufti Aijaz Arshad Qasmi, as to whether blog service-providing companies can be made party to the case for any content posted by the users on the blogs.

The court, which will further hear the matter later today, also asked Google Inc why it had not come up with a "proper" reply and brushed aside its contention that it had received the copy of the judgement and other documents related to case only last Friday.

"Why are you (Google Inc) not coming properly with your reply?" the court asked.

"Don't tell me you have been served only on Friday. After all this hullabaloo that has been created in the last few months, you should have been prepared," it stated.

The court also asked the petitioner to supply the copies of all documents relied upon, to all the opposite parties.

The court had on December 20 last year, in an ex-parte order issued summons to 22 social networking websites asking them to remove "anti-religious" or "anti-social" content in the form of photographs, videos or text which might hurt religious sentiments.

On December 24, it set February 6 as the deadline. Santosh Pandey, the counsel appearing for complainant Mufti Aijaz Arshad Qasmi, had assured the court that he would provide companies with the copy of the complaint and other related documents.

The court's order had come amid a raging controversy over monitoring the content on Internet and of those websites depending on user generated contents, which arose after Union Telecommunications Minister Kapil Sibal had asked the social networking websites to "screen" content.

The websites, which have been asked to remove objectionable content, include Facebook India, Facebook, Google India Pvt Ltd, Google Orkut, Youtube, Blogspot, Microsoft India Pvt Ltd, Microsoft, Zombie Time, Exboii, Boardreader, IMC India, My Lot, Shyni Blog and Topix.

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