Following the Nirmal Baba order, where the Delhi High Court, had made explicit reference to the IT Rules, and had relied heavily on the 36 hour takedown timeline, another instance of the Court citing the IT Rules to direct an intermediary for content removal has emerged - The Delhi High Court in an interim order passed on 9th May 2012, has directed Google, to remove derogatory content against spiritual leader, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, founder of Art Of Living, from all of its Blogspot pages in addition to the ones mentioned in the suit application, according to an IANS report (via The Asian Age). The suit which was filed by Vyakti Vikas Kendra,India public charitable trust through its trustee Mahesh Gupta, Gautam Vig, Bhanumati Narsimhan and Sharmila Murarka against Jitender Bagga, and Google, for indiscriminately sending e-mails and publishing a large number of blogs with defamatory content on blogger.com, also sought damages to the tune of Rs 5.09 crore. In its interim order, the Delhi High Court said that there was strong prima facie case against Jitender Bagga and Google, and complainants will suffer irreparable loss and injury, if content was not removed, and asked Google to remove all defamatory content against the spiritual leader and the organisation, within 36 hours. The court said: "In view of the foregoing facts and reasons mentioned above, it appears that the plaintiffs have been able to make out a strong prima facie case of passing of ex-parte interim order. The balance of convenience also lies in favour of the plaintiffs and against the defendants. Incase, interim…
