A mother of three minor children has moved the Bombay High Court seeking a ban on popular mobile video-sharing app, TikTok..The Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by one Heena Darvesh from Mumbai also seeks a direction to the government to provide records of deaths due to accidents caused by the use of TikTok..The petitioner has claimed that the TikTok app is affecting young people, especially children, by causing addiction issues leading to degraded mental health..Moreover, the petitioner alleges that the video sharing app is causing hatred, disbalance and enmity amongst religious groups and has affected the country’s diversity. It is also stated that country’s reputation is getting tarnished by the TikTok application. Another prayer made in the petition reads:.“Whether the TikTok app is wasting the time, money, resources of the executive and judiciary machineries of the country?”.The petitioner further states that in July this year, two First Information Reports (FIRs) were registered in Mumbai following controversial video/audio that allegedly sparked religious enmity. No action against the company running the application has been taken yet, states the petitioner..Advocate Ali Kaashif Khan Deshmukh will appear for the petitioner woman..In April this year, the Madras High Court had passed an order prohibiting the download and use of TikTok..The Court had passed the order after expressing concern that the app hosts inappropriate content, including pornography, which is available for access to children. The Bench had also expressed its consternation that minors are also exposed to strangers online through TikTok..TikTok had subsequently challenged the order in the Supreme Court. The company had claimed that the Madras High Court’s interim order was based on exaggerations made by the petitioner in the case. The Supreme Court, however, decided to defer consideration of the matter and directed the Madras High Court to take a call..Ultimately, on April 24 this year, the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court lifted its ban..The Bombay High Court will hear the PIL in due course.
A mother of three minor children has moved the Bombay High Court seeking a ban on popular mobile video-sharing app, TikTok..The Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by one Heena Darvesh from Mumbai also seeks a direction to the government to provide records of deaths due to accidents caused by the use of TikTok..The petitioner has claimed that the TikTok app is affecting young people, especially children, by causing addiction issues leading to degraded mental health..Moreover, the petitioner alleges that the video sharing app is causing hatred, disbalance and enmity amongst religious groups and has affected the country’s diversity. It is also stated that country’s reputation is getting tarnished by the TikTok application. Another prayer made in the petition reads:.“Whether the TikTok app is wasting the time, money, resources of the executive and judiciary machineries of the country?”.The petitioner further states that in July this year, two First Information Reports (FIRs) were registered in Mumbai following controversial video/audio that allegedly sparked religious enmity. No action against the company running the application has been taken yet, states the petitioner..Advocate Ali Kaashif Khan Deshmukh will appear for the petitioner woman..In April this year, the Madras High Court had passed an order prohibiting the download and use of TikTok..The Court had passed the order after expressing concern that the app hosts inappropriate content, including pornography, which is available for access to children. The Bench had also expressed its consternation that minors are also exposed to strangers online through TikTok..TikTok had subsequently challenged the order in the Supreme Court. The company had claimed that the Madras High Court’s interim order was based on exaggerations made by the petitioner in the case. The Supreme Court, however, decided to defer consideration of the matter and directed the Madras High Court to take a call..Ultimately, on April 24 this year, the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court lifted its ban..The Bombay High Court will hear the PIL in due course.
