HC asks govt about juveniles on FB
The Delhi high court on Thursday sought the Centre’s response on a plea questioning how children below the age of 18 years are allowed to open an account on social networking sites, including Facebook, even though Indian laws do not permit it.
The court also asked two US-based entities — Facebook and Google — to reply to the plea of former BJP ideologue K.N. Govindacharya seeking an order for recovery of taxes from the websites on their income from operations in India.
The high court bench asked the counsel for the Centre to make the government’s stand clear on the issue through an affidavit within 10 days.
“How can children below 18 years have an agreement with any of the social network sites, including Facebook? The Union of India is directed to file an affidavit on the issue within 10 days,” the bench said.
The court also said, “Both Facebook Inc. and Google Inc. are US-based entities and are hereby impleaded as respondents. Notices to be issued to the newly added parties.”
The bench passed the order that children below 18 are getting into an agreement with social networking sites to open accounts, which is against the Indian Majority Act, the Indian Contract Act and also the Information and Technology Act.
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