New Delhi
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday, Nov 27 sought the replies of various social networking sites including Google and Facebook to a plea for removal of "defamatory and derogatory" articles against a church and an NGO from their sites. Issuing notice to M/s Google India Pvt Ltd, its subsidiaries - You Tube, Blogger, Blogspot.in and also to Facebook, Justice Valmiki Mehta sought their replies by Jan 7, next year. The court issued the notice on a joint plea of Gospel for Asia (a city-based NGO) and Believers Church, which alleged that "there are several malicious contents with intent to defame and destroy the reputation of the entire organisation (church) including it founder Metropolitan Bishop Dr KP Yohannan and Rev Fr Daniel Varghese, Diocesan Secretary of the church."