The Delhi High Court on Thursday directed Twitter to take down within 48 hours the tweets of historian Audrey Truschke, in which the allegation of plagiarism was made against historian Vikram Sampath in connection with his works on Vinayak Damodar Savarkar.
The court issued the order on a fresh application by Mr. Sampath, seeking that the defamatory tweets against him be removed from Twitter. It also issued notice to Facebook as the letter allegedly containing the prima facie defamatory material was posted on the social media platform.
Mr. Sampath, who is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society in London and has written a two-volume biography of Savarkar, had earlier moved the court seeking ₹2 crore in damages from Ms. Truschke and two other authors of the letter, Ananya Chakravarti and Rohit Chopra, for defamation.
