Allahabad HC asks Google, Meta to take away ‘objectionable’ movies in opposition to Rambhadracharya

The Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court on Saturday (October 12, 2025) directed Meta and Google to take away inside 48 hours allegedly objectionable movies circulating on social media in opposition to famend Ramkatha narrator and Padma Vibhushan awardee Jagadguru Rambhadracharya.

A division Bench comprising Justice Shekhar B. Saraf and Justice Prashant Kumar handed the order whereas listening to a petition filed by Sharad Chandra Srivastava and others.

The court docket instructed the petitioners to supply the related URL hyperlinks to the social media corporations to facilitate the elimination course of. The subsequent listening to within the case has been scheduled for November 11.

The petition alleged that one Shashank Shekhar, who operates a number of channels on YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram, has been posting derogatory and defamatory movies in opposition to Rambhadracharya, who can be the Vice Chancellor of the Jagadguru Swami Ram Bhadracharya Divyang University in Chitrakoot, Madhya Pradesh.

Despite objections raised by Rambhadracharya’s followers, the movies reportedly stay on-line, and no motion has been taken by the involved platforms to take away them, it stated.

The plea additionally urged the Central and State governments to border and strictly implement guidelines for regulating social media platforms, highlighting the necessity to curb the unfold of defamatory content material on-line.

The petitioners contended that the content material was not solely defamatory but additionally mocked Rambhadracharya’s incapacity, as he misplaced his eyesight in childhood.

During the listening to, the State authorities knowledgeable the court docket that the Office of the State Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities has already taken cognisance of the problem and issued a discover to Mr. Shekhar, directing him to seem earlier than the fee on October 18.