The Delhi high court on Tuesday directed activist Saket Gokhale to immediately remove all “scandalous” tweets against Lakshmi Puri, saying that one thoughtless barb is sufficient to crumble the reputations — nourished and nurtured over years of selfless service and toil.
In an interim order, justice C Hari Shankar restrained Gokhale from posting any tweets in the future against Lakshmi Puri and her husband Union minister Hardeep Puri and said that the “desecration of the reputation of a public figure has become child’s play in the age of social media”.
The court also directed Twitter to remove the tweets if Gokhale does not delete them in 24 hours.
The court said that before posting the tweets, he should have carried out “due diligence” by seeking clarifications from Puri or from some official sources.