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New Delhi:\u00a0<\/strong>The Delhi High Court on Friday asked the parent company of Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Bing to file a response after they disclosed the identity of an eight-year-old girl who was raped and murdered in Jammu and Kashmir.<\/p>\n The direction from Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar came after their Indian subsidiary apprised the bench that they were not the concerned entity to respond to the court’s query.<\/p>\n The court observed that several Internet platforms and social networking sites were extensively displaying the photographs and name of the victim.<\/p>\n Google and other social media platforms have done a great disservice to the nation by uploading contents which revealed the identity of the minor victim, the bench said.<\/p>\n The bench said that the entities cannot absolve themselves for such activities and maintained that the law was the same for everyone.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the court stayed the proceedings initiated by the Press Council of India (PCI) against some of the media houses for disclosing the identity of the victim.<\/p>\n The court last month directed 12 media organisations to pay Rs 10 lakh each as compensation for disclosing the identity of the eight-year-old girl who was killed in Kathua.<\/p>\n The court had observed that there were long term repercussion to the victim’s family, especially for the women members, due to such reporting.<\/p>\n The court said they had violated law and were punishable under Section 228-A of the Indian Penal Code.<\/p>\n The minor in Kathua was held captive and sedated before being repeatedly raped and murdered.<\/p>\n