Govt Union tells the High Court of Karnataka

The additional Attorney General Aravin Kamath has filed a memory that states that Proton Mail has not been blocked and the lock cannot happen when a hat falls, there are rules in force.

As a petitioner’s advisor he looked for a week to make his sending to prohibit the E -Email Service, Justice M Nagaprasanna posted the problem for subsequent hearing on March 21.

Earlier The court has guided the Government of the Union to inform the measures taken to ensure the illegal use of the “proton email”. The Directorate was issued while you hear a petition submitted by M Moser the design of Associated India PVT LTD, looking for a direction to the Government of the Union to take necessary measures to prohibit Proton Mail, in India.

In addition, a direction was sought to provide complete and updated information on the regulations in force on the use and access of the proton, in India.

The company filed a complaint with the police in relation to the criminal and illegal use of Proton Mail, whereby its senior employees were repeatedly targeted by issuing emails containing obscene, abusive and vulgar language and by sexual and derogators, along with images generated by Al Deepfake and other explicit content.

It is claimed in the grounds that the E -mails containing this content have been issued to a large number of staff, associations, sellers and competitors, which led to an irreparable reputation and psychological damage to the employees concerned.

In addition, it is claimed that, despite the registration of the FIA ​​on 09.11.2024, the police did not make effective measures to identify the accused person (s), forcing the company to move the jurisdictional magistrate with a request to monitor the police investigation. After being directed by the court, the police submitted a status report indicating that no concrete or efficient measures were made and the use of the mutual legal assistance agreement between India and Switzerland was not made.

Pleadoaria aims to issue a direction to the Police to collect all the necessary information and documents regarding the sender of the criminal mail, through the mutual legal assistance agreements between India and Switzerland, in a time related to time.

In addition, the pleading aims that the police are directed to request immediately the issuance of rogatory/legal applications through the Jurisdictional Magistrate, to the Federal Justice Office, Switzerland, to provide all the relevant information and documentation regarding the sender of the offensive Email.

Case title: M Moser Design Associates India PVT LTD and State of Karnataka and others

Case no: WP 2358/2025