-The Hindu
Google India was on Thursday dropped from the array of defendants in the civil suit filed against social networking websites for allegedly hosting objectionable content.
Administrative civil judge Parveen Singh said here that no case was made out against Google India, which stated that it did not operate any social networking website and that it was merely a software development firm functioning as a subsidiary of Google Inc.
The court also dropped a number of other websites arrayed as defendants in the suit including Exbii, IMC India, My Lot, Shyni Blog, Topix, Zombie Time and Broadreader as they were not found to be proper parties to the suit.
Defendants
The other major company that remains as a defendant in the suit are Facebook India Online Services and its parent company based in the U.S. Two other technology majors, Yahoo and Microsoft, were earlier dropped from the suit.