India, May 9 -- The Delhi High Court (HC) on Thursday (May 9) directed Google and Microsoft to file a fresh review petition against the court's previous order which required the tech giants to identify and remove non-consensual intimate images without requesting specific URLs.

This comes a day after it was reported that Microsoft and Google moved the HC challenging a single-judge bench order dated April 26, 2023, directing them to use "already existing mechanism with the relevant hash-matching technology" to remove non-consensual intimate images (NCIIs) without requesting URLs.

A bench comprising acting Chief Justice Manmohan and Justice Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora asked the companies to file a review petition after they said that they d...