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The Government told a Delhi
court there is sufficient material to proceed against the 21 social
networking sites which included Yahoo and Microsoft for offences of
promoting enmity between classes and causing prejudice to national
integration.
"The
sanctioning authority has personally gone through the entire records
and materials produced before him and after considering and examining
the same, he is satisfied that there is sufficient material to proceed
against the accused persons under section 153-A, 153-B and 295-A of the
IPC," the Centre said in its report placed before Metropolitan
Magistrate Sudesh Kumar.
The
two-page report was placed after the court directed Ministry of
External Affairs (MEA) to get the summons served on over ten
foreign-based companies.
The summons were issued on December 23 last but they remained unserved.
The
court had on December 23 issued summons to 21 social netorking websites
for allegedly committing offences of criminal conspiracy, sale of
obscene books and sale of obscene objects to young persons.
It
had said prima facie the accused companies were liable to be summoned
for promoting enmity between classes, causing prejudice to national
integration and insulting religion or religious belief of any class, but
the summons could not be executed without having prior sanction of
central or state government or the district magistrate.
The
Department of Information Technology, in its report, granted saction to
proceed against the 21 companies for allegedly promoting enmity between
classes and causing prejudice to national integration.
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