Ashneer Grover Directed By Delhi HC To Take Down X Posts Against BharatPe, Its Chairman

The Delhi High Court on Friday directed BharatPe co-founder and former managing director (MD) Ashneer Grover to take down X (formerly Twitter) posts against the company and its officials within 48 hours.

The high court also asked Ashneer to delete his post tweet wherein he had referred to Chairman of the BharatPe Board and former State Bank of India (SBI) chief Rajnish Kumar as "petty people".

The said post about Kumar read, "The SBI Chairman seems to be 'petty people'. And something very wrong at their core. I learnt it the hard way. So did SC."

In its order, Delhi HC said that social media posts made by Ashneer and his wife, Madhuri Jain Grover, "be taken down within 48 hours".

The court observed that Ashneer continued to post defamatory posts about BharatPe and its officials and directors, "despite several court orders restraining Ashneer as well as his own previous undertaking", news agency IANS said in a report.

Ashneer's social media posts were violative of the letter and spirit of the previous orders of the court and the said undertaking, Delhi HC noted. He has previously written to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), asking the central bank to open a probe into the shareholding of BharatPe.

Earlier this week, the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) dismissed Ashneer's challenge to its jurisdiction on its power to decide on the claw back of his shares in BharatPe.

(With inputs from IANS)