India, Dec. 11 -- The Delhi High Court on Thursday ordered social media intermediaries to remove, within three days, all material that infringes the personality rights of Bollywood actor Salman Khan, including any defamatory content.

A bench of justice Manmeet PS Arora issued the order while dealing with the actor's petition seeking protection of his personality rights, after his lawyer Sandeep Sethi submitted that his client's personality rights were being misused by various entities.

Considering the contention, the court pointed to its November 27 direction and asked social media companies to treat Khan's suit as a complaint under Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules 2021 (IT Rules) and ...