In Twitter Blue-Tick Case, An Unconditional Apology From Ex-CBI Boss M Nageswara Rao

In Twitter Blue-Tick Case, An Unconditional Apology From Ex-CBI Boss M Nageswara Rao [ad_1]

Twitter blue-tick plea: Excessive Courtroom waives penalty on ex-CBI boss M Nageswara Rao after he apologises

New Delhi:

The Delhi Excessive Courtroom in the present day excused former interim CBI Director M Nageswara Rao from paying a penalty of Rs 25,000 imposed on him on the time of dismissal of his problem to the alleged elimination of "blue tick" from his Twitter account by the micro-blogging platform.

The retired IPS officer apologised unconditionally to the court docket and mentioned that he was a pensioner who "was simply asking for his identification to be secured".

Waiving the penalty, Justice Yashwant Varma ordered, "Making an allowance for the unconditional apology which is tendered on behalf of the petitioner, the price when it comes to the order of Could 17, 2022 shall stand deleted."

In Could, the court docket had dismissed Mr Rao's plea towards the elimination of the verification tag from his Twitter account whereas noting that "there was completely no justification which warranted the writ petition to be filed taking into consideration that the sooner writ petition was disposed of on April 7."

On April 7, the court docket had granted liberty to Mr Rao to pursue acceptable cures with regard to his grievances in case any opposed determination is made by Twitter.

The plea had mentioned that in pursuance to the court docket's order, he reapplied for the verification tag, nonetheless, it was not reinstated.

Mr Rao had claimed that his account on Twitter did include a blue tick however the identical was eliminated in March 2022.

In his plea, he had additionally sought instructions to the Centre to designate or earmark a number of compliance and grievance officers completely to deal with complaints from customers of social media platforms like Twitter, Fb, and Instagram referring to compliance to the legislation and guidelines, together with verification of person identification, in order that individuals are not subjected to pointless harassment.
 

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