Ajit Mohan, the Indian head of social media giant Facebook, has moved the Supreme Court against a notice sent to him by the Delhi Assembly.
The petition will be heard by a three-judge tribunal headed by Judge Sanjay Kishan Kaul.
The peace and harmony committee of the Delhi Assembly issued a new notice calling on Mohan, vice president and managing director of Facebook India, to appear for a statement before the panel on September 23.
The committee, which is headed by Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) spokesman and legislator Raghav Chadha, had issued a warning to Facebook India on Tuesday after Mohan failed to appear before the panel for his third hearing, despite being subpoenaed. .
The committee had previously said that Facebook was in contempt of the Delhi assembly and gave the social media company a “final warning” to heed the summons and appear before it, dismissing a letter sent by executives at the firm. , refusing to appear before the panel.
In a letter, Facebook (trust and safety) director Vikram Langer told the peace and harmony committee of the Delhi assembly on Tuesday that the company’s head in India, Ajit Mohan, could not appear before the panel. because it was already being deposited before a permanent parliamentary committee. , and argued that the content regulation of the firm was outside the jurisdiction of the state assembly.
The assembly’s first notice was sent to Mohan after the committee’s second hearing on September 12, regarding complaints about the alleged “deliberate and intentional inaction by the social media company to contain hateful content” in the country. .
The notice was issued after the committee, at its second hearing on August 31, said prima facie that it had discovered that Facebook India was allegedly complicit in aggravating communal violence in northeast Delhi in February that left at least 53 people dead. and more than 400. injured.
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