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The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Madras High Court to decide on April 24 a plea by TikTok seeking vacating of its ban order.
A Bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi said if the Madras High Court fails to decide on the plea, its ban order will stand vacated.
The apex court had earlier refused to stay the Madras High Court order that directed the Centre to ban Tiktok over concerns about access to pornographic content through the app.
‘Order passed ex parte’
Senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi, appearing for the Chinese company ByteDance, had told the top court earlier that there were over a billion downloads of the mobile app, and ex-parte orders were passed by the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court.
He had said the court did not even issue a notice in the matter, and an order was passed without hearing them.
The High Court’s interim order came on a public interest litigation (PIL) which alleged the app encouraged paedophiles, and the content “degraded culture and encouraged pornography.”
Voicing concern, the court had said it was evident from media reports that inappropriate content was available through such mobile applications. It had also directed the media not to telecast video clips made with TikTok.
It had asked the government if it would enact a statute on the line of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act in the US to protect misuse of the app against minors.
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