Mumbai: The Delhi High Court stated that appropriate legislation or guidelines to regulate content on social media and OTT platforms are urgently needed in the context of the use of vulgar language in the public domain and on social media platforms, as this content is accessible to children of a vulnerable age.

"This court draws the attention of the ministry of information and technology to situations which are fast emerging on a daily basis and to take steps for enforcing stricter application of its rules qua the intermediaries as notified in the Information Technology Rules, 2021, and make any law or rules as deemed appropriate in its wisdom, in light of the observations made in this judgment," the single bench of Justice Swarna K Sharma said.

The court criticised the language used in the TVF web series College Romance, stating that it fails the moral decency community test of a common man and crosses the line into obscenity.

The bench further said that the words and language used in the web series would certainly be found by many as naturally disgusting and sexual and that they are not part of "standard Hindi or any other Indian language".