NE LEGAL BUREAU
NEW DELHI, JAN 13
The Delhi High Court on Monday has issued notices to WhatsApp, Google, Facebook and Apple Inc on a petition seeking preservation of data, including CCTV footage, WhatsApp messages, relevant data and information relating to the January 5 violence that took at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus.
The court has also sought responses from Delhi Police and the state government. Delhi Police told the court that they had sought footage of 135 CCTV cameras installed across the 1,000-acre campus.
3 JNU professors -Ameet Parameswaran, Shukla Sawant and Atul Sood – had sought necessary directions to the Delhi Police Commissioner and the Delhi government. The case will be heard again tomorrow.
The professors want relevant data of WhatsApp groups ”Unity against Left” and ”Friends of RSS” retrieved. The data includes messages, pictures, videos and phone numbers of the members, in connection with the violence at JNU last Sunday.
The court was told by Delhi government Standing Counsel (criminal) Rahul Mehra today that the police has not yet received any response from the university administration.
