HC orders immediate ban of Tamil website

In the present round, she wanted further action and also raised 'a very important issue of prevention of abuse and misuse of information technology for the purpose of defaming the reputation of an individual by uploading obscene pictures/photographs.'

Justice Selvam, expressing shock at material furnished by Mahalakshmi to prove she had been subjected to 'immeasurable harm', said, “All this is done without so much as having the courage to inform who is behind the offending website.'

Holding service providers and those managing the sites responsible for contents uploaded ultimately, he said websiteservice providers and all other persons providing internet service necessarily would require persons incharge of websites to inform true particulars on names and addresses.

'Clearly, in this case, the names and addresses stand wrongly informed.' The judge also recorded the concern expressed by Advocate General of Tamil Nadu A L Somayaji and said special teams had been formed to ascertain the location of the accused persons.

He also made it clear that every objectionable post uploaded in the site would give rise to separate cause of action for people to initiate appropriate proceedings against the site.

' Each and every instance of objectionable and vituperative, malignant post in the website would give cause for separate cases and actions,' the judge said.