Case against Google India dropped, only 6 left in suit

A city court on Thursday dropped the name of Google India and seven other Internet giants from the suit of trial of various social networking sites for allegedly hosting objectionable contents, leaving behind six companies against whom the case will be proceeded.

Administrative civil judge ( ACJ) Praveen Singh dropped the case against Google India considering the company’s plea that it does not operate any social networking site and also it is only a “subsidiary of Internet giant Google Inc and does not operate the websites.”

ACJ Praveen said, “It is a subsidiary of Google Inc registered in India and is a software developer company which has no role in running of Google Inc.”

The court earlier had also dropped cases against Yahoo and Microsoft. After Thursday’s court proceeding, names of merely six websites have been left in the suit.

The court also dropped cases against seven other entities — Exbii, IMC India, My Lot, Shyni Blog, Topix, Zombie Time and Boradreader.

Microsoft was the first company to have dropped from being dragged into the trials for hosting provocative and objectionable contents.

Yahoo followed in the list, and now out of 22 entities against whom the suit was filed for hosting objectionable contents, the case will proceed only against six —Facebook ( India and US), Google Inc, Orkut, Youtube and Blogspot ( through Google Inc CEO Larry Page). The judge allowed firm’s plea after plaintiff Mufti Aijaz Arshad Quasmi’s counsel Santosh Pandey did not oppose dropping the names of the firms.