Summons soon

IN Media Watch Briefs | 10/10/2012

Facebook and Google may be served summons soon for “promoting class enmity and undermining national integrity” in India. A complaint filed by one Vinay Rai accuses these and many other US-based sites of “committing offences of selling obscene materials to youth and conspiracy.” A Home Ministry official who appeared in the court in favor of the complainant and using Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT) between the US and India as a reference said that the court should directly initiate extradition proceedings instead of issuing summons because then it would take too much time. The Magistrate however said that he would not initiate the extradition proceedings. (PTI)

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