Bengaluru, July 26 -- X Corp on Friday accused the Union government of using the "innocuously named" Sahyog portal as a "wolf in sheep's clothing" to issue illegal content blocking orders that bypass statutory safeguards, escalating its legal challenge against what it calls an unconstitutional censorship mechanism.

Appearing before the Karnataka High Court, senior advocate KG Raghavan argued further on the company's core content that the government was misusing Section 79(3)(b) of the Information Technology Act and Rule 3(1)(d) of the 2021 IT Rules to circumvent due process protections upheld by the Supreme Court in the landmark Shreya Singhal case.

"It is innocuously named but it is a wolf in sheep's clothing. We are a responsible busi...