Chennai, July 24 -- The Madras high court is awaiting a standard operating procedure (SOP) from the Centre for victims to follow if videos and photos get uploaded online without their consent, to be taken down. Justice Anand Venkatesh said that he would pass a judicial order, after the SOP is submitted.

The court was hearing the plea filed by a woman advocate stating that her former partner had released videos and photos of their intimate moments, filmed without her consent, on social media and pornographic sites.

The HC on Tuesday issued a direction to the Union minister of electronics and information technology to ensure that six video links where the videos and photos continue to resurface, is effectively blocked and "it shall also b...