Petition under Arlicle 226 of the Constitution of lndia praying that in compljance with the directions of Ir,4 y Lord the Hon'ble the chief Justice on the office Note dated, 16-04-2020 and for the reasons stated in the letter daled 13lO4l2O2O sent by the petitioner herein through email, this Hon'ble Court may be pleased to issue an appropriate Writ, Order or Orders more particularly, one in the nature of a Writ of Mandamus to call for remarks and records from the Respondents herein relating to and in connection with banning Tik Tok mobile app which was containing videos undermining the medical seriousness of COVID-1g and encouraging people from the Muslim Community not to follow social distancing or other precautionary measures issued by the State and Central Governments as well as provisions of Section 2 and 2(al of the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897 or else the life of rest of the healthy and unaffected citizens will be put to danger thereby creating a chaos in the Country, as well as saying wearing a lslamic CAP or praying five times a day would not effect a person with the COVID-19 virus, videos of short duration of 15 to 20 seconds show young boys, teens and adults in muslims, would discourage fellow muslims from exercising precautions and these videos are laced with religious overtones fueling rebellion by a particular community against the Government, APP is hosted in China and can be downloaded and installed on any computing and viewing device such as Mobiles, Laptops, TABs etc., and once downloaded the user has got the complete flexibility of making a video including a background music along with superimposition of subtitles and the same can be hosted under the viewers userid and if shared on any social media like WhatsUp, Facebook, lnstagram, Twitter, Helo can be viewed by millions of people [t/adras High Court in Writ Petition No.7885 of 2019 (filed by one Muthu Kumar on 2410212019) by an order dated 03/04/2019 prohibited downloading of TIKTOK mobile Application, prohibited media from Telecasting the videos which degrade culture, encourage Pornography, causing pedophiles, explicit disturbing content, social stigma and medical health issues to teens, lnformation Technology Act, 2002, under Section 694, as well as the lnformation Technology (Procedure and safeguards) for blocking for access of lnformation by public) Rules 2009 as well as lnformation Technology (lntermediaries Guidelines)-2011 along with the institution of the Grievance Officer are adequate provisions to deal with such a contingency and adequate machinery is provided under Section Z9(3)(a) and Section 79(3)(b) of lnformation Technology Act, 2002 as well as the Rules under lnformation Technology (lntermediaries Guidelines)-201'1 which deal with lntermediaries who fail to act or respond to a complaint or request made by any person/persons regarding any negative or inappropriate content transmltted through the platform, viz., recent postings (one of the links https //www.facebook.com/groups/ 807334102637 434t permalink/ 28734976526 877251) had been making rounds through the TIKTOK Platform, provisions to rule 3(4) of lntermediaries Guidelines-201 1 , provides removal of such content within 36 hours, which is too long time, as spreading such videos would already damage the society.
