India, Feb. 26 -- The users of social media platforms should have broad shoulders to bear criticisms as a post published is bound to be either appreciated or criticised, the Delhi high court observed while dismissing a defamation suit against four X handles.

The bench of justice Manmeet PS Arora dismissed the defamation suit filed by online legal education platform Law Sikho, which accused four individuals of posting "defamatory" tweets in reply to a post by one of their officials, which had described National Law University (NLU) graduates as "incompetent".

The court said that Law Sikho official's tweet was published with an intent to elicit responses from the audience and fell within the parameters of "online trolling".

In his tweet,...