J&K Deputy CM moves Delhi HC for removal of objectionable content against him on social media

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Deputy Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir UT Surinder Kumar Choudhary.

Deputy Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir UT Surinder Kumar Choudhary. | Photo Credit: Imran Nissar

Jammu and Kashmir Deputy Chief Minister Surinder Kumar Choudhary connected Tuesday (December 2, 2025) urged the Delhi High Court for a absorption to region definite objectionable contented against him connected societal media.

Mr. Choudhary, a subordinate of the Jammu and Kashmir National Conference, has filed a defamation suit claiming that determination is alleged defamatory contented with intersexual undertones connected respective societal media platforms, including Facebook pages and YouTube channels, against him.

Justice Amit Bansal, however, observed that helium had not filed the transcripts of the alleged objectionable contented without which the tribunal could not find if it was defamatory oregon not.

“How tin the tribunal find if the contented is defamatory oregon not with it?” the justice asked.

On being pointed retired by the counsel for societal media intermediaries that the petitioner had made incorrect entities arsenic parties and the close 1 would beryllium Meta Platforms, the tribunal asked Mr. Choudhary’s lawyer to marque indispensable corrections. It besides directed Meta Platforms and Google Inc to springiness details of the uploaders of those contents to the petitioner.

The tribunal listed the substance for further proceeding connected January 13, 2026 and asked Mr. Choudhary, who represents the Nowshera Assembly constituency, to spot connected grounds the defamatory contented on with the transcripts by then.

During the hearing, his counsel said astir of the contented dated backmost to 2 years and bulk of the URLs related to media reports.

Published - December 02, 2025 10:49 p.m. IST

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