India, Feb. 27 -- The Delhi high court has held that users on social media platforms must have the resilience to handle both praise and criticism, while dismissing a defamation suit filed by an online legal education platform against four individuals for allegedly posting defamatory tweets in a thread on X.

A bench of justice Manmeet PS Arora, in a February 20 verdict released on Saturday, stated that any social media post is bound to receive reactions. "A post published on a social media platform is bound either to be appreciated or criticised and the user has to have broad shoulders to bear the criticism," it said.

The defamation suit stemmed from a tweet by an official of Law Sikho, an online legal education platform, criticising the...