India, July 17 -- Meta, the parent company of WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook, has not yet been onboarded onto the Sahyog Portal, developed to streamline the process of notices to intermediaries for content removal or access blocking, according to solicitor general Tushar Mehta's written submissions in the X vs Union of India case.

It is the second major tech company after X (formerly Twitter), which has not yet joined the portal.The portal has emerged as a central point of contention in the ongoing X vs Union of India case being heard in the Karnataka high court.

X has called the platform a "censorship portal" and argued that it allows government agencies to bypass established legal safeguards under Section 69A of the IT Act. The gov...