New Delhi: The Centre told Delhi High Court Friday that social media posts and reports of over 75 judges and ministers travelling to London to participate in a badminton event are “completely false and misleading”.Its response came on a plea filed by the Badminton Association of India (BAI) seeking action against social media posts and online publications allegedly spreading false claims that judges of constitutional courts, Union ministers and members of the executive participated together in a badminton tournament in London.After hearing the matter, Justice Tejas Karia said he will pass an order and indicated that social media intermediaries and digital platforms should take down such false content, furnish subscriber details of accounts responsible for uploading and disseminating the posts.HC also asked the ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY) to examine the matter and take appropriate action in accordance with law.The plea said photographs from the All India Judges’ Badminton Championship held at Thyagaraj Stadium in New Delhi on Nov 29, 2025, were wrongly circulated online and falsely projected as photographs from the London event, exposing a misinformation campaign being carried out through social media posts.The petition further stated that despite the claims having been debunked by the PIB Fact Check Unit, the allegedly false content continued to be circulated on various social media platforms.
