Mahima Goel Vs Amit Goel — Contempt of Court | Delhi HC (2025)

Mahima Goel Vs Amit Goel — Contempt of Court | Delhi HC (2025)

What the court decided

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Outcome

Respondent's undertaking to refrain from issuing or disseminating any communication or content regarding the petitioner or her family and friends on any social media, online or offline, or messaging platform; petitioner permitted to revive the case upon any non-compliance with the undertaking.

Issue for consideration

Whether the stories/posts at issue were issued from an account associated with the respondent's phone number, as verified by Meta and WhatsApp. +1 more

Ratio / Principle

Respondent Amit Goel, present in Court with his counsel, undertook that he shall not issue any communication or disseminate any content with respect to the petitioner or her family and friends on any social media platform, online or offline platform or any messaging platform.

Key takeaways

The undertaking was entertained by the Court in view of its stated inclination to issue show-cause to the respondent as to why he should not be punished for contempt and sentenced.ratio¶¶12
In the circumstances and in view of the undertaking given, in case of any non-compliance with the said undertaking the petitioner is at liberty to revive the contempt petition.ratio¶¶13

Detailed headnote1 paragraphs

Contempt Case (Civil) No. 746/2025, High Court of Delhi (Anish Dayal, J., order dated 26.05.2025): In a contempt petition by Mahima Goel against Amit Goel concerning posts/stories issued from accounts traced to the respondent's phone number (9899650592), counsel for Meta reported, pursuant to a previous order, that the account issuing the posts belongs to the respondent's number, and counsel for WhatsApp confirmed the WhatsApp account was likewise on that number. With the respondent present in Court along with his counsel, and the Court having indicated it was inclined to issue show-cause as to why he should not be punished for contempt and sentenced, the respondent undertook that he shall not issue any communication or disseminate any content with respect to the petitioner or her family and friends on any social media, online or offline, or messaging platform. On the strength of this undertaking, the Court disposed of the petition, granting the petitioner liberty to revive it in case of any non-compliance.

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IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI

CONT.CAS(C) 746/2025 MAHIMA GOEL .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Ankit Jain, Sr. Adv. with Mr. Nannidh Singh Arora and Mr. Manish Khurana, Advs. along with petitioner in-person. versus AMIT GOEL .....Respondent Through: Mr. Sumit Sahni, Adv. with respondent in person. Mr Varun Pathak, Ms Amee Rana, Mr Akhil Shandilya, Ms Charu Sharma, Advs. for Meta. Ms. Swati Agarwal, Adv. for WhatsApp.

CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ANISH DAYAL

O R D E R

% 26.05.2025

[Hearing has been conducted through Video Conferencing]

Mr. Varun Pathak , counsel appears for Meta platforms and states that pursuant to previous order, they have verified the snapshot of the stories and posts and state that the account from which these posts have been issued belongs to phone no. 9899650592 , the phone number of the respondent and the account is associated to this number.

Ms. Swati Agarwal , counsel appears for WhatsApp and states that the WhatsApp account is on this number as well.

This is a digitally signed order. The authenticity of the order can be re-verified from Delhi High Court Order Portal by scanning the QR code shown above. The Order is downloaded from the DHC Server on 01/07/2025 at 01:38:47

In any event, Mr. Amit Goel, respondent, is present in Court, along with his counsel, and has now undertaken that he shall not issue any communication or disseminate any content with respect to the petitioner or her family and friends on any social media platform, online or offline platform or any messaging platform.

This undertaking has been given to the Court considering the Court was inclined to issue show-cause to the respondent as to why he should have not been punished for contempt and be sentenced.

In these circumstances and the undertaking given, in case there is any non-compliance with the said undertaking, the petitioner is at liberty to revive the same.

The petition is, therefore, disposed of.

Order be uploaded on the website of this Court.

ANISH DAYAL, J

MAY 26, 2025/MK/ bp

This is a digitally signed order. The authenticity of the order can be re-verified from Delhi High Court Order Portal by scanning the QR code shown above. The Order is downloaded from the DHC Server on 01/07/2025 at 01:38:47