Following a request by the central authorities, the High Court of Karnataka on Wednesday as soon as once more adjourned the listening to of the petition by Twitter towards the federal government’s takedown orders.

Additional Solicitor General R Sankaranarayanan knowledgeable the courtroom that the Solicitor General was arguing one other case earlier than a Constitutional Bench of the Supreme Court and he had simply returned after a bout of sickness. He sought the adjournment of the listening to to February 7.

The HC requested the advocate for Twitter whether or not he would consent to the adjournment. The courtroom mentioned that it will adjourn the case provided that the petitioner assented.

The advocate for Twitter consented to the adjournment, following which the Court recorded that it was reluctantly adjourning the listening to to February 7.

During the final listening to on January 9, the Centre had sought adjournment and the Court had expressed its displeasure on the frequent cases of the federal government in search of adjournments.

Justice Krishna S Dixit is listening to the petition.

The petition filed by Twitter is towards take-down orders issued by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology’s (MeitY).

Twitter approached the High Court with its petition filed in June, 2022. It has claimed that the federal government was required to difficulty discover to the house owners of the twitter handles towards whom blocking orders are issued. It claimed it was even barred from informing the account holders in regards to the takedown.

Senior advocates Arvind Datar and Ashok Haranahalli have argued on behalf of Twitter. The arguments for the central authorities are but to be superior earlier than the HC.

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