Bengaluru court restrains media, tech platforms from disseminating defamatory vidoes on Siddaramaiah

A Bengaluru civil court on Tuesday issued an ad-interim ex-parte temporary injunction restraining further circulation of two videos telecast on two private YouTube channels making allegedly defamatory remarks against former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah.

The interim order restrains 42 media houses, including newspapers, television channels, digital platforms like YouTube, Yahoo, Google and Facebook, from disseminating the impugned videos, their captions, clips, extracts, or substantially identical versions through any medium.

B. Pushpanjali, judge of the 19th additional city civil and sessions court, Bengaluru, passed the interim order on a suit filed by Mr. Siddaramaiah.

Additionally, the court directed YouTube, Yahoo, Google and Facebook, to forthwith disable access to and block the specified URLs of the two videos telecast on the YouTube channels on September 27, 2026, with title “Karnataka Honey Trap Nexus Part-1”, and October 2, 2026 with the title “Live: Biggest CD Blast in Karnataka Politics?”.