Two years ago, X was involved in a criminal complaint filed by his wife and her mother. They resolved their differences later and now live amicably with their minor child. The criminal case against X has been withdrawn. However, the court order pertaining to the criminal case pops up each time X enters his name during an internet search.

X, a bank employee in Dubai, has now filed a writ in the Delhi High Court seeking the right to be forgotten. The petitioner has sought that his name be delinked or removed from Google’s search index so that it does not appear along with “irrelevant and obsolete” and harmful data about him.

The respondents in his petition are the Union government, Google and indiankanoon.org, a search engine for Indian law, which uploaded the legal order. The case is still pending in court.