The government will appeal against a Gwalior district court order asking it to block web pages carrying defamatory material about Arindam Chaudhuri-led Indian Institue of Planning and Management.
“Minister (Kapil Sibal) has asked DEITY (The Department of Electronics and Information Technology) to appeal against the Gwalior court order. The order was passed without DEITY being made party to it. No notice was issued and the order came to us directly without giving us an opportunity to respond. We will ask the court to vacate the order,” an IT Ministry source said.
DEITY will appeal to the Gwalior court to vacate this order in the next hearing on February 28, the source said. The court order asked Director General of Indian Computer Emergency Response Team to block 78 web pages including that of the University Grants Commission (UGC).
UGC, in its public notice had said it did not recognise IIPM and the institute was not entitled to award degrees. “The order is on civil matter not under the Information Technology Act. It was issued to us on January 29. We waited till February 14 but parties in the case against whom the order was passed neither complied with it nor appealed against it. DEITY was left with no option but to comply with the order,” the source said.
No immediate comments were received from Google and Weebly.
“Minister (Kapil Sibal) has asked DEITY (The Department of Electronics and Information Technology) to appeal against the Gwalior court order. The order was passed without DEITY being made party to it. No notice was issued and the order came to us directly without giving us an opportunity to respond. We will ask the court to vacate the order,” an IT Ministry source said.
DEITY will appeal to the Gwalior court to vacate this order in the next hearing on February 28, the source said. The court order asked Director General of Indian Computer Emergency Response Team to block 78 web pages including that of the University Grants Commission (UGC).
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This was after the parties in the case — Google India, Google Inc and website firm Weebly Inc — did not comply with the order, the source said.
UGC, in its public notice had said it did not recognise IIPM and the institute was not entitled to award degrees. “The order is on civil matter not under the Information Technology Act. It was issued to us on January 29. We waited till February 14 but parties in the case against whom the order was passed neither complied with it nor appealed against it. DEITY was left with no option but to comply with the order,” the source said.
No immediate comments were received from Google and Weebly.