Delhi High Court’s major ruling on the ‘Cockroach Janata Party’ post, activist Abhijeet Dipke’s X account will be unblocked immediately Delhi High Court’s major ruling on the ‘Cockroach Janata Party’ post; Activist Abhijit Dipke’s X account to be unblocked immediately. – ..

A very important and big decision has come out from the Delhi High Court regarding freedom of speech and account suspension on the social media platform X. Giving relief to social media activist Abhijeet Dipke, the court has directed to immediately restore his banned account. This entire matter is related to a controversial political post, after which his handle was blocked on the orders of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY).

Green signal received from Justice Swarnakanta Sharma’s court

The hearing of this sensitive case was held in the court of Honorable Justice Swarnkanta Sharma of the Vacation Bench of Delhi High Court. Senior lawyers appearing for petitioner Abhijeet Dipke argued that complete blocking of the account by the government is a violation of his fundamental right to freedom of expression. After hearing the arguments of both the parties, the court gave major relief to the petitioner and directed the concerned authorities to unblock Deepke’s X handle without any delay.

What was the whole controversy related to ‘Cockroach Janata Party’?

This whole legal dispute started when Abhijeet Dipke shared a sarcastic political post using the term ‘Cockroach Janata Party’ from his social media account. There was a lot of uproar regarding this post and considering it allegedly defamatory and against IT rules, the Central Government had issued an order to X (Twitter) to completely ban this account. Dipke had directly approached the court against this government action.

Court’s stance on social media censorship and IT Act

After this decision, a new debate has erupted among legal and digital rights experts. This stance of the court makes it clear that the social media account of any citizen cannot be completely blocked merely on the basis of political satire or criticism. This order of Delhi High Court can prove to be a precedent for future account blocking actions under Section 69A of the IT Act.