Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and Senior Advocate Gaurav Bhatia has approached the Delhi High Court seeking the removal of defamatory content on social media over his appearance on a TV news show which went viral.
Justice Amit Bansal heard the matter on Tuesday.
The Court said it will go through the material and will pass orders on Thursday.
The Court clarified that while it will injunct defamatory material referring to Bhatia's private parts etc but satirical or sarcastic content related to the incident will not be restricted.
Bhatia had appeared on a news show on News 18 channel earlier this month. During the introduction to the show by journalist Amish Devgan, Bhatia was seen wearing a kurta allegedly without pants/pyjama.
Advocate Raghav Awasthi appeared for Bhatia today and said that he was wearing shorts and the cameraman showed the bottom half of his body by mistake.
Awasthi stated that social media posts related to the incident violate Bhatia's privacy and objectionable comments must be removed.
Bhatia's defamation suit has sought removal of posts by Samajwadi Party media cell, news platform Newslaundry, politicians like AAP's Saurabh Bharadwaj and Congress' Ragini Nayak and journalists including Abhisar Sharma.
Bhatia also appeared before the Court in person and submitted that people on social media cannot be allowed to use derogatory words like 'nanga (nude)' concerning his appearance on TV.
"I stand before you because reputation is earned over decades," he said.
Justice Bansal said that Bhatia is in politics and should, therefore, be thick-skinned.
Meanwhile, advocate Mamta Rani Jha, appearing for Google, stated that some of the links sought to be taken down have nothing to do with this incident.
She said that some of the defendants are news publications.
The Court also said that it must be very careful while passing an ex parte injunction order.
"We have to be very careful. The Supreme Court has said that you should not pass ex parte orders in such cases. We have to be very careful," the judge remarked.