Neutral Citation Number: 2023:DHC:2806 2. Information takedown from platform upon actual knowledge based on court order or notice from appropriate government authorised by law: 36 hours [Rule 3(1)(d)] 3. Providing information on a lawful request: 72 hours [Rule 3(1)(j)] 4. Removal of revenge porn (sexual extortion/non-consensual porn publication/sexual act or conduct involving impersonation, etc.) and other similar content: 24 hours [Rule 3(2)(b)]. 13. It is submitted that in the present Petition, the grievance(s) of the Petitioner falls under Rule 3(2)(b) of the IT Rules, 2021 and accordingly, the Petitioner has an efficacious remedy to approach the intermediary directly or through any person on her behalf including law enforcement agencies for removal of URLs containing offending content. 14. It is submitted that the Petitioner's Prayer in clause (B) seeking delinking/de-tagging/dereferencing/de-indexing the name of the Petitioner from the search engines would adversely affect on the freedom of expression and speech of other individuals having the same or similar name as that of the Petitioner. 15. It is submitted that the Rule 3(2)(b) of the IT Rules, 2021 empower the Petitioner to seek removal of the content by submitting the information/URLs to the intermediaries, who are obligated to remove such content within 24 hours‖ 9. Vide Status Report dated 16.03.2022, this Court was apprised of the fact that the accused Richesh Manav Singhal and one Shweta Chhabra had been arrested after an investigation at their residence which lead to the discovery of more than 83,000 explicit pictures, including that of the Petitioner herein, on one of the laptops at their residence. It was further Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed By:SHAZAAD ZAKIR Signing Date:26.04.2023 17:19:50 W.P.(CRL) 1505/2021 Page 11 of 88

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