Disclaimer: Idea of blog writing is to understand laws related to social media, writer not in any side, views are independent.
Understand conflict by this video of Ms Anita Bhadel, MLA Ajmer, Rajasthan
Ajmer collector created a whats app group for easy administration, all IPS, IAS, RAS of Ajmer district are members of this group.
Whats App Group Admin is Ajmer Collector himself.
Some unwarranted posts are shared in this group by personal secretary of Ajmer collector.
Further Collector did APO to his personal secretary.
Can Ajmer collector be held liable only on these grounds that he has created group and he is group admin???
Delhi High Court : Ashish Bhalla vs Suresh Chawdhary, 2016
Whats App group admin cannot be held liable for the post published by group member, I n a particular case Delhi high court said there is no fault of group administrator.
But there are some cases where Group Admin and/or other group members are liable.
But When???
When group admin of any other member endorse any post it will be considered that person who is endorsing such will be author of that post.
Madras High Court : SVE Shekhar vs The Inspector of Police, 2018
Forwarding and sharing of message is same as you created message because when responsible citizen (celebrity/leader etc) do such act common men start believing on content of post.
We don't know how many person endorse such posts in group, however as per local news, police is working on this matter.
Local News Link and Source of information
Rahul Rathore
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