Delhi High Court orders Samajwadi Party to remove tweet leveling rape allegation against BJP's Amit Malviya

The Delhi High Court on Friday ordered Samajwadi Party to take down allegations of rape made on X (formerly Twitter) against Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) IT Cell head Amit Malviya. .Senior Advocates Arvind Nayar and Nalin Kohli appeared for Malviya before Justice Vikas Mahajan and argued that Malviya is the IT Cell head of a major political party and has built his reputation with great difficulty.“These kinds of statements can’t be made for anybody… It is causing damage every day. Lakhs of people have seen this,” Nayar said.He pressed for an interim order to take down the tweet and said that order may be given by dasti (service of court notice by hand) as well.Justice Mahajan agreed and added that order will be given by dasti..Malviya has sued the Samajwadi Party (SP) for defamation. The suit has been filed through advocates Surjendu Sankar Das and Annie Mittal.The dispute is tied to allegations of rape against an SP leader in Uttar Pradesh's Ayodhya. SP leader Moeed Khan and another man named Raju Khan are stated to be the accused in the case. On August 3, SP Chief Akhilesh Yadav tweeted that a DNA test must be done and the guilty should be punished, but if the allegations are proven to be false, then action must be taken against the officials involved. The same day, Malviya quoted Yadav's tweet and asked what he wanted to prove through a DNA test."But nothing other than this kind of disgusting politics can be expected from Akhilesh Yadav... In the coming days, wherever SP wins, there will be many news of such misdeeds against the daughters and daughters-in-law of backward society in every village. SP is less of a political party and more of a gang of criminals," Malviya said. SP Media Cell's Twitter handle reacted to Malviya and put up a post on X with pictures of BJP leaders with people accused of rape.This included photos of Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Asaram Bapu (Asaram has been convicted of rape) and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's photo with Swami Chinmayanand (Chinmayanand has been accused of rape). The tweet went on to say that there were talks that Malviya used to invite women to his hotel and rape them, and talks of his "illicit" relations with men.