The Delhi High Court has refused to entertain a petition challenging a single judge's order to remove allegedly defamatory content linking Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri's daughter, Himayani Puri, to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
A bench of justices Vivek Chaudhary and Renu Bhatnagar asked the petitioner, Kunal Shukla, to file an application for vacating the single judge's March 17 order and directed the single judge to consider it on April 23.
The court passed the order after Shukla's lawyer, senior advocate Vikas Singh, asserted that the March 17 order was passed without granting an opportunity to be heard or issuance of notice.
The single judge had directed the removal of all existing allegedly defamatory content, including reports, social media posts, videos, and other material, uploaded from IP addresses in India within 24 hours.
The court, however, declined to order an immediate global takedown of the content, instead directing that material uploaded outside India be geo-blocked to prevent access within the country.
The defamation suit was filed by Himayani, who stated that false, misleading, and defamatory posts and articles were published and amplified across social media and intermediary platforms starting February 22, 2026.
