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The Madras High Court on Wednesday lifted its ban on Chinese social media app TikTok with the condition that the platform should not be used to host obscene videos.
Justices N Kirubakaran and SS Sundar of the Madurai Bench of the High Court, which heard the matter on the orders of the Supreme Court, warned that if any “controversial” video violating this condition were found posted on the app, it would be considered a contempt of court.
The High Court had on April 3 directed the Centre to ban TikTok, a mobile app, which is used to create short videos, voicing concern over “pornographic and inappropriate content” being made available through such apps.
Hearing a plea challenging the ban by ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns the app, the Supreme Court refused to stay the HC order, but asked the firm to raise its grievances before the High Court.
A Bench of Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi and justices Deepak Gupta and Sanjiv Khanna had on Monday directed the High Court to decide on Wednesday the plea seeking to vacate the high court’s earlier ban order.
It had also said that if the Madurai Bench did not decide on the plea for interim relief on Wednesday, the ban order would stand vacated.
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