A plea has been filed before the Delhi High Court seeking immediate compliance of an order passed by Union Government's Grievance Appellate Committee (GAC) to remove a video uploaded by YouTuber Dhruv Rathee on Hindu deities, which is alleged to be defamatory and hurting religious feelings.

The matter was listed before Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma, who was on leave today.

The plea will now be heard on August 10.

The development came in a plea filed by lawyer Amita Sachdeva, who has also filed a criminal case against Rathee over his video.

Sachdeva is aggrieved by Rathee's video of March 21 titled “Can Hindus eat BEEF? Kerala Story 2 Exposed”. In the video, Rathee has discussed dietary habits in Hindu scriptures. He argued that ancient texts and sages mention deities like Lord Ram and Lord Krishna consuming meat.

On July 03, the Court had asked GAC to decide Sachdeva's appeal seeking removal of the video. On July 15, GAC passed an order for take down of the video in 24 hours.

While the Court had disposed of her plea, Sachdeva has now filed a fresh application alleging that YouTube has wilfully failed to take down Dhruv Rathee's video, which, as per GAC, has the tendency to hurt religious feelings of a community.

She has accordingly sought immediate compliance of GAC order and removal of the video in question. She has also sought a declaration that continued non compliance by YouTube would amount to contempt.

Title: Amita Sachdeva v. Union of India & Ors