Uttar Pradesh's Sub-divisional Magistrate Jyoti Maurya has filed a plea in the Delhi High Court for deletion of news, scenes, audio, video, fake news, ugly songs circulated on various social media platforms. Her personal fight with her husband, employed as class IV employee has gone viral.
In her plea filed through Advocate Satyam Singh Rajput, she also sought directions to the News Channels to not share any content against her.
She also sought directions to the news channels to set up their “internal complaint redressal mechanism” and ensure prior consent from the person before releasing any content, news, song, video, image or views related to personal life in public domain or social media.
"The petitioner has a fundamental right to privacy, which includes the right to keep personal and intimate matters private and free from unwarranted intrusion. Publishing personal information, messages, and recordings on social media without the petitioner's consent violates this right and causes significant distress and harm to the petitioner,” the plea stated.
She claimed despite the registration of FIR, “no effective steps” have been taken by the Police authorities, and her husband is giving interviews in the media and on social media several fake news, articles, videos are being circulated continuously.
“The content being circulated on social media is defamatory and harassing in nature. It includes derogatory language, abusive posts, and false allegations aimed at tarnishing the petitioner's reputation and character. Such actions not only cause emotional trauma but also endanger the petitioner's personal and professional life,” it claimed.
Jyoti's husband, Alok, a Class-IV employee in the Panchayati Raj Department in Pratapgarh, had alleged that she had left him after becoming SDM.
He claimed he secretly followed his wife to Lucknow after growing suspicious of her “official visits”. He alleged that Jyoti spent nights with another officer Manish Dubey in hotel rooms. He also said that he caught them "red-handed" leaving a hotel once. Dubey was then posted as a home guard commandant in Ghaziabad.
Among other allegations, Alok claimed Jyoti and Manish had conspired to get him killed and that he had WhatsApp chats on a plot to murder him.
