Court orders serving summons to Facebook via e-mail

New Delhi: A Delhi court today ordered serving summons to Facebook through e-mail, asking for a response to a suit that seeks action against it for allegedly hosting objectionable content. Administrative Civil Judge Parveen Singh ordered serving of summons to Facebook through e-mail within three days as the Internet giant has made no representation to the court and several summons issued against it have gone unserved. The court also directed for its due service through courier at Facebook’s headquarter in the US. [caption id=“attachment_280102” align=“alignleft” width=“380” caption=“Reuters”] [/caption] Meanwhile, plaintiff Mufti Aijaz Arshad Qasmi, who has filed the suit for legal action against various websites, today moved the court for making the Centre a co-plaintiff in his suit. In his application filed through his counsel Santosh Pandey, Qasmi argued that making the Centre a co-plaintiff to the suit is must for its proper adjudication. Qasmi said “since the suit was related to the public, religious and national issues, the Union of India should be arrayed as a plaintiff for proper  adjudication of the case.” In another application, he sought review of the court’s order that dropped Google India from the list of parties against whom he had filed the suit. Pandey also sought review of the order dropping Orkut India, Youtube India and Blogspot India from the case on the ground that he had “inadvertently” and due to “confusion” given his no objection for deletion of the names of Google India and the other three parties from the suit. The court had on 12 April dropped Google India and others from the suit after the plaintiff said he had no objection to it. Mufti’s counsel Pandey said the submissions made by Google India, Orkut India, Youtube India and Blogspot India that they were only subsidiaries of Google Inc, Orkut, Youtube and Blogspot were wrong. PTI