WhiteHat Jr. and its CEO Karan Bajaj have managed to secure a partial gag order from the Delhi High Court against Pradeep Poonia, who has been openly critical of the company and its practices. In response to a ₹20 lakh defamation suit filed by the Byju’s-owned company and Bajaj, the high court has restrained Poonia from a number of activities essentially, scutting any criticism that could amount to defamation. Poonia will have to delete multiple tweets posted through September and October, particularly those accusing WhiteHat Jr of being a ponzi scheme and other unproven claims. In addition, Poonia will also have to delete some YouTube videos, refrain from using “WhiteHat Sr” on his YouTube channel, as well as remove videos that display confidential information of WhiteHat Jr’s employees or Slack channels. Moreover, Poonia cannot comment on the company’s number and quality of teachers, or their education or professional background or download any curriculum from the company’s platform. Filed on November 20, the defamation the suit includes allegations of trademark and privacy infringements. Accusing Poonia of launching a “systemic and highly defamatory” attack against them, “hacking” the company’s Slack channels and accessing confidential company information, the company has demanded permanent injunctions of Poonia’s social media presence including his accounts on Twitter, YuTube, Reddit, LBRY and his Telegram username and groups. It also asked that Poonia be prevented from publishing any defamatory or derogatory statements, from using the WhiteHat Jr trademark. WhiteHar Jr and Bajaj were represented by Mukul Rohatgi, the former…
Please subscribe to MediaNama. Don't share prints and PDFs.
You May Also Like
News
Google has released a Google Travel Trends Report which states that branded budget hotel search queries grew 179% year over year (YOY) in India, in...
Advert
135 job openings in over 60 companies are listed at our free Digital and Mobile Job Board: If you’re looking for a job, or...
News
By Aroon Deep and Aditya Chunduru You’re reading it here first: Twitter has complied with government requests to censor 52 tweets that mostly criticised...
News
Rajesh Kumar* doesn’t have many enemies in life. But, Uber, for which he drives a cab everyday, is starting to look like one, he...