"Law Of Land Must Be Followed": Minister On High Court's Twitter Verdict

Hailing the Karnataka High Court order dismissing Twitter's plea against the government, Union Minister for Communications and IT Ashwini Vaishnaw said that the law of the land must be followed.

The Karnataka High Court dismissed a petition, filed by Twitter last year, which challenged several blocking and take-down orders issued by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.

The court ruled that the company's plea was "devoid of merits".

The single-judge bench of Justice Krishna S Dixit, which dictated the operative portion of the judgement, also imposed a whopping cost of Rs 50 lakh on Twitter and ordered it to be paid to the Karnataka State Legal Services Authority within 45 days.