HC directs removing of content material linking Union Minister Hardeep Puri’s daughter to Jeffrey Epstein| India Information
New Delhi, The Delhi Excessive Court docket on Tuesday directed removing of social media content material linking Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri’s daughter to convicted American intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein inside 24 hours.
Justice Mini Pushkarna additionally restrained a number of customers from publishing, circulating or disseminating such content material on social media platforms in any method.
The choose, who was listening to a lawsuit by Himayani Puri, clarified that if the social media customers didn’t take away the posts, the platforms shall take down or block entry to such content material.
The court docket noticed that Himayani Puri has a prima facie case in her favour and she’s going to undergo irreparable damage if interim aid was not granted.
“Consequently, until the subsequent date of listening to, the next instructions are issued,” the court docket stated, whereas itemizing the case for additional listening to in August.
Senior advocate Mahesh Jethmalani, showing for the plaintiff, stated she has a “international fame” to guard as a finance skilled and that the allegations in opposition to her had been “utterly false, reckless and malicious.”
In her lawsuit in search of ₹10 crore as damages and an order to restrain a number of entities from disseminating defamatory content material, Himayani Puri stated there was a “coordinated and malicious on-line marketing campaign” to hyperlink her to Epstein and his crimes.
She additionally sought an unconditional apology and retraction from the defendant entities.
“Commencing on or round 22.02.2026, a sequence of false, deceptive and defamatory posts, articles, movies and digital materials had been printed, disseminated and amplified throughout social media and middleman platforms together with inter alia X, YouTube, Instagram, Fb, LinkedIn, digital information portals and different web-based publications,” the plea stated.
Himayani Puri asserted that she is an achieved finance and funding skilled, who’s being focused solely as a result of she is the Petroleum and Pure Fuel Minister’s daughter.
Based on her lawsuit, the defendants disseminated “baseless imputations” that Himayani Puri maintained direct or oblique enterprise, monetary or private community hyperlinks with Epstein.
The allegations are completely false, malicious and devoid of factual basis, the plea stated.
The Epstein recordsdata are hundreds of pages of paperwork associated to 2 legal investigations into intercourse trafficking by Epstein and his confederate Ghislaine Maxwell, together with journey logs, recordings, and emails, which have been a subject of dialog since Epstein died in custody in 2019.
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