Digital rights groups IFF, SFLC move HC against Delhi Police asking X to remove their accounts

Digital rights groups Internet Freedom Foundation and the Software Freedom Law Center said on Thursday that they have moved the Delhi High Court, challenging notices purportedly issued by the police to social media platform X, asking it to take down their accounts and posts for allegedly defaming the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.

The RSS is the parent organisation of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.

The organisations have sought that the notices be quashed, as the Delhi Police had neither denied nor withdrawn the takedown requests that were communicated to them by X.

Due to the lack of any official denial or rescision by the Delhi Police for the takedown notices for IFF's X Account that were communicated by X to us, IFF has been constrained to file a writ petition in the Hon'ble High Court of Delhi. The matter is registered and will come up… https://t.co/0L3cOF7dM3 pic.twitter.com/EV7tXBo0SM— Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) (@internetfreedom) November 5, 2026

“Our attempts to verify the notices with the Delhi Police have not yielded any confirmation,” the Software Freedom Law Center said on social media. “Several emails were returned as undeliverable, and we are yet to receive an official response from the Delhi Police.”

The notices

On Tuesday, the organisations said that they and an X account, Geo Blocked in India, which compiles blocking orders in the country, had...

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