{"id":339,"date":"2018-01-21T18:54:21","date_gmt":"2018-01-21T18:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/?p=339"},"modified":"2018-01-21T18:54:21","modified_gmt":"2018-01-21T18:54:21","slug":"supreme-court-notice-to-whatsapp-inc-in-sexual-offence-video-blocking-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/supreme-court-notice-to-whatsapp-inc-in-sexual-offence-video-blocking-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court notice to WhatsApp Inc in sexual offence video blocking case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source &#8211;<strong> financialexpress.com<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Supreme Court has sought the response of US-based instant messaging application firm WhatsApp Inc in a matter relating to blocking of videos of sexual offences on social networking sites. The court, while making WhatsApp Inc a party in the matter, said that the petitioner might send a detailed e-mail to them to make a presentation, if possible through video conferencing, to assist the committee set up by the court to explore a technical solution to block such videos.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The court\u2019s order came after advocate Aparna Bhat, who is representing the petitioner, mentioned the matter before it seeking to make WhatsApp a party in the case.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cOn an oral request made by the counsel for the petitioner, WhatsApp Inc having office at 1601, Willow Road, Menlo Park, California \u2013 94025, United States of America is made a party-respondent,\u201d a bench comprising Justices Madan B Lokur and Deepak Gupta said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cSince the meetings pursuant to our earlier orders are being held on a day-to-day basis, (we) issue notice to WhatsApp Inc returnable on April 13,\u201d the judges said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIn the meanwhile, the counsel for the petitioner may also send a detailed e-mail to the newly added respondent to make a presentation, if possible through video conferencing, to assist the committee,\u201d they noted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The court had on March 22 constituted a committee comprising representatives from the Centre and Internet majors to explore a technical solution to block videos of sexual offences on social networking sites.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It had given the nominees of Google India, Microsoft India, Yahoo India, Facebook and other internet intermediaries 15 days to meet and come up with a solution. The Centre had earlier informed the apex court that it would set up a specialised agency to block and curb sharing of sexual offence videos on social networking platforms.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The court was hearing a letter sent to then Chief Justice of India H L Dattu by Hyderabad-based NGO Prajwala along with two rape videos in a pen drive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It had taken cognisance of its own of the letter about posting of those videos and had asked the CBI to launch an investigation with immediate effect to apprehend the culprits.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The NGO\u2019s letter had also mooted the idea of maintaining a national sex offenders\u2019 register which should contain details of persons convicted for offences like eve-teasing, stalking, molestation and other sexual assaults.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It had also suggested that the Ministry of Home Affairs should have a tie-up with YouTube and WhatsApp to ensure that such offensive videos are not uploaded and the culprits are punished.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/supreme-court-notice-to-whatsapp-inc-in-sexual-offence-video-blocking-case\/\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"5\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground:  !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 100% !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source &#8211; financialexpress.com The Supreme Court has sought the response of US-based instant messaging application firm WhatsApp Inc in a matter relating to blocking of videos of sexual offences on social networking sites. 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