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The Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court connected Saturday (October 12, 2025) directed Meta and Google to region wrong 48 hours allegedly objectionable videos circulating connected societal media against renowned Ramkatha narrator and Padma Vibhushan awardee Jagadguru Rambhadracharya.
A part Bench comprising Justice Shekhar B. Saraf and Justice Prashant Kumar passed the bid portion proceeding a petition filed by Sharad Chandra Srivastava and others.
The tribunal instructed the petitioners to supply the applicable URL links to the societal media companies to facilitate the removal process. The adjacent proceeding successful the lawsuit has been scheduled for November 11.
The petition alleged that 1 Shashank Shekhar, who operates aggregate channels connected YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram, has been posting derogatory and defamatory videos against Rambhadracharya, who is besides the Vice Chancellor of the Jagadguru Swami Ram Bhadracharya Divyang University successful Chitrakoot, Madhya Pradesh.
Despite objections raised by Rambhadracharya's followers, the videos reportedly stay online, and nary enactment has been taken by the acrophobic platforms to region them, it said.
The plea besides urged the Central and State governments to framework and strictly enforce rules for regulating societal media platforms, highlighting the request to curb the dispersed of defamatory contented online.
The petitioners contended that the contented was not lone defamatory but besides mocked Rambhadracharya's disability, arsenic helium mislaid his eyesight successful childhood.
During the hearing, the State authorities informed the tribunal that the Office of the State Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities has already taken cognisance of the contented and issued a announcement to Mr. Shekhar, directing him to look earlier the committee connected October 18.
