In Re: Prajwala Letter Dated 18. 2. 2015 Videos Of Sexual Violence And Recommendations vs. . . . . . . . .

ITEM NO.301 COURT NO.4 SECTION PIL-W

S U P R E M E C O U R T O F I N D I A RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS

SMW (Crl.)No(s).3/2015

IN RE: PRAJWALA LETTER DATED 18.2.2015 VIDEOS OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE AND RECOMMENDATIONS

Date : 18-05-2018 This petition was called on for hearing today.

CORAM :

HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE MADAN B. LOKUR HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE UDAY UMESH LALIT

Ms. N.S. Nappinai, Adv. (A.C.)

Ms. Richa Srivastava, Adv. Mr. Tejas Chhabra, Adv. Mr. Nitin Saluja, Adv. Mr. Shijo George, Adv. Ms. Ishani Banerjee, Adv. Mr. Kumar Vaibhav, Adv. Mr. Mrinal Srivastava, Adv. Mr. Karan Khaitan, Adv. Mr. S. S. Shroff, AOR

	For Petitioner(s)	Ms. Aparna Bhat,<br>AOR
		Mr. P. Ramesh Kumar, Adv.
		Ms. Rajkumari Banju, Adv.
		Ms. Joshita Pai, Adv.
		Mr. Mayank Sapra, Adv.

		For Respondent(s)	Mr. Maninder Singh, ASG
	For CBI/MHA		Mr. Aman Sinha, Sr. Adv.
			Mr. R. Balasubramanian, Adv.
			Ms. Gunwant Dara, Adv.
			Ms. Rashmi Malhotra, Adv.
			Mr. P.K. Dey, Adv.
			Mr. T.A. Khan, Adv.
			Ms. Aarti Sharma, Adv.
			Mr. Prabhas Bajaj, Adv.
			Ms. Sushma Suri, AOR(NP)
			Mr. Mukesh Kumar Maroria, AOR
			Mr. B.V. Balram Das, Adv.
Yahoo			Mr. Samir Ali Khan, AOR
			Mr. Sanjay Kumar, Adv.
			Mr. Kushank Sindhu, Adv.
		Facebook Ireland	Mr. Sidharth Luthra, Sr. Adv.

Facebook India Ms. Richa Srivastava, Adv.

	Mr. S. S. Shroff, AOR
Google	Mr. Sajan Poovayya, Sr. Adv.<br>Ms. Ruby Singh Ahuja, Adv.<br>Mr. Vishal Gehrana, Adv.<br>Ms. Tahira Karanjawala, Adv.<br>Mr. Arvind Chari, Adv.<br>Mr. Priyadarshi Banerjee, Adv.
	Mr. Saransh Kumar, Adv.<br>Mr. S. Pratibhanu Singh Kharola, Adv.<br>Mr. Sharvan Sahny, Adv.<br>Mr. Avishkar Singhvi, Adv.
	Mrs. Manik Karanjawala, Adv.<br>Mr. Sanjeet Ranjan, Adv.<br>for M/s. Karanjawala & Co.
Microsoft	Mr. V. Giri, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Amar Gupta, Adv.<br>Mr. Akhil Bhardwaj, Adv.<br>Mr. Divyam Agarwal, AOR
Whats App	Mr. Kapil Sibal, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Tejas Karia, Adv.<br>Mr. Shashank Mishra, Adv.<br>Mr. Koshy John, Adv.<br>Mr. Raghav Tankha, Adv.<br>Mr. Ashwin Reddy, Adv.<br>Mr. S.S. Shroff, Adv.

UPON hearing the counsel the Court made the following

O R D E R

We have heard the learned Amicus, the learned ASG, Ms. Aparna Bhat - learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the other parties.

On going through the Status Report handed over in Court today by the learned ASG, we find that a substantial amount of work still remains to be done. It has been stated that the launch of Beta Version of Online Cyber Crime reporting portal has been given up and now the portal in its

final form will be launched on or before 15th July, 2018.

It is further stated that at present, the security audit is

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going on.

With regard to Portal Integration with CCTNS, it is stated that this is likely to take about two months' time and the Ministry of Home Affairs is co-ordinating with the States and the Union Territories in this regard.

With regard to Institutional Mechanism at Central Level, it is stated that there is some dialogue between the States and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and other Ministries in this regard.

It is further stated that all these three activities will be completed on or before 15th July, 2018. In our opinion, more than sufficient time has been taken by the Ministry of Home Affairs to complete these tasks and to complete other tasks. However, time is granted to the Ministry of Home Affairs to complete the tasks on or before 30th June, 2018.

In our order dated 16.04.2018, we had required the parties before us i.e. Yahoo, Facebook Ireland, Facebook India, Google India, Google Inc., Microsoft and Whats App to let us know the status of progress made pursuant to the recommendations accepted by these entities as mentioned in the Report of the Committee. None of these entities has filed anything to show us the progress nor any of these entities is ready with any response pursuant to our aforesaid order.

We direct these entities to file an affidavit on or before 15th June, 2018 giving us the status of the progress made.

The Registry will accept the affidavit filed by these entities along with costs of Rs.1 lac each which will be kept in a fixed

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deposit for a short term period immediately upon receipt.

List the matter on 2nd July, 2018 at 2.00 pm. It is made clear that the proceedings need not be in camera**.**

(MEENAKSHI KOHLI) (KAILASH CHANDER) COURT MASTER COURT MASTER