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It is not THAT unusual to find law suits that border on the ridiculous. In 2011, a convict filed a law suit against the couple he kidnapped for not helping him evade the police. Usually, such law suits get thrown out. Not in that case that involved a suit filed by Mufti Aijaz Arshad Qasmi though. Qasmi filed a suit seeking to stop websites from circulating objectionable and defamatory contents that could cause “irreparable loss and injury to the people who are offended by them'. India To...   >>>

It is not THAT unusual to find law suits that border on the ridiculous. In 2011, a convict filed a law suit against the couple he kidnapped for not helping him evade the police. Usually, such law suits get thrown out. Not in that case that involved a suit filed by Mufti Aijaz Arshad Qasmi though. Qasmi filed a suit seeking to stop websites from circulating objectionable and defamatory contents that could cause “irreparable loss and injury to the people who are offended by them'. India Today website reported that among the examples he cited are images of Hindu gods, the Prophet Mohammed and other religious figures that have been subjected to different forms of defamation in social media site. Interestingly enough, A Delhi court agreed with Qasmi and ordered 22 social networking sites, including Yahoo and Microsoft, to delete objectionable and defamatory contents from their websites and file compliance reports by February 6, 2012.



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