The Delhi High Court on Thursday issued clear directions to YouTube to remove all sorts of false & misleading content on Aaradhya Bachchan, the daughter of actors Abhishek Bachchan & Aishwarya Rai Bachchan from its platform.

The High Court coming down hard on the YouTube also instructed that the video sharing platform must ensure that such fake news is not shared or disseminated in future.

The 11-year-old grand daughter of Amitabh Bachchan had moved High Court on Wednesday over some YouTube channels for reporting fake news about her health. The fake videos reportedly claimed that Aaradhya Bachchan was passing through a difficult phase & was ‘critically ill’. In its searing observation, the court said that spreading misinformation about a child reflects “morbid perversity”.

Justice C Hari Shankar said that dissemination of misleading information about a child’s health was “completely intolerable in law” and directed it to inform the complainant about details of video uploaders and also asked it to ensure that similar videos, if come to notice again, be pulled out from public view.