KOLKATA (The Thursday Times) — Calcutta High Court ne YouTube, X aur Meta ko hukm diya hai ke woh Bharti arabpati Gautam Adani aur Wazir-e-Azam Narendra Modi ke bare mein aik documentary hata dein. Yeh hukm Adani Enterprises ke us documentary ke maker, Hotmail ke co-founder Sabeer Bhatia, ke khilaf hatak-e-izzat ka muqadma karne ke baad aaya.
Peer ki der raat jari kiye gaye aarzi hukm mein Bhatia ko 36 minute ki film, The Friendship Files, phailane se bhi roka gaya hai, aur yeh 31 January 2027 tak nafiz rahega. Sunwai January mein dobara shuru hone ki ummeed hai. Adani Enterprises 50 crore rupee, taqreeban 5.25 million dollar, harjane ka mutalba kar rahi hai.
Reuters ke mutabiq adalat ne apne hukm mein kaha ke yeh film "na news report hai aur na kaarwai ka bayan. Yeh aik dramai bayaniya hai."
Film mein kya dawe kiye gaye hain
US mein muqeem Bhatia, jinhon ne 1997 mein Hotmail Microsoft ko farokht kiya, archival footage ke zariye Modi aur Adani ke taalluq ko Gujarat tak le jate hain, jahan Modi wazir-e-aala thay. Film sawal uthati hai ke 2019 mein hukumat ke qawaid mein tabdeeli ke baad, jise naqqadeen Adani ke haq mein qarar dete hain, Adani ne chhe airports ki boliyan kaise jeetin.
Modi ke mukhalifeen taweel arse se un par is arabpati ko nawazne ka ilzam lagate aa rahe hain. Hukumat aur Adani Group donon is ki tardeed karte hain aur kehte hain ke tamam qawaid par amal kiya gaya.
Adani Enterprises ne adalat ko bataya ke woh hukumati policy par tameeri tanqeed ko rokne ki koshish nahin kar rahi, lekin dalil di ke Bhatia ne ahem haqaiq chhupaye.
Takedowns aur reposts
Adalat ke hukm se pehle bhi film par dabao daala ja chuka tha. 19 October ko Maharashtra ki police ne Bhatia ko takedown notice bheja, jis mein kaha gaya ke content ne "sangeen aur be-bunyad ilzamat lagaye". Opposition rehnuma Raj Thackeray ne film ki apni post hata di, jise X par 48 lakh views mil chuke thay, aur kaha ke unhon ne yeh Mumbai ke police commissioner ke kehne par kiya.
Bhatia ne X par challenge bhara lehja apnaya. "Mera khyal hai ke documentary ne Adani Enterprises Limited ko hila kar rakh diya hai aur sab se oonchi satehon par hassas rag chheyr di hai," unhon ne likha, aur kaha: "Sachai meri taraf hai."
Opposition ki rukn-e-parliament Mahua Moitra ne, jinhon ne yeh film 11 October ko share ki, apne followers se kaha ke woh isay zaroor dekhein. "Yeh ab bhi meri timeline par maujood hai, is liye zaroor dekhein," unhon ne likha.
Adani, Modi ke daftar, Bhatia aur social media companies ne Reuters ki jaanib se tabsre ki darkhwast ka jawab nahin diya.
