New Delhi, July 11 -- Social media platform X has disclosed that the government successfully issued over 62 emergency blocking orders in April and May, targeting 12,000 URLs and 10,500 accounts, as evidence that existing legal frameworks are adequate and the government doesn't need controversial parallel mechanisms to regulate content. The number of orders, issued at a time of heightened tensions following the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir and India's Operation Sindoor that struck terror bases in Pakistan in the weeks after, was disclosed in X's submissions filed on July 7 in the Karnataka high court, where it has challenged the government's use of the Sahyog portal and Section 79(3)(b) of the IT Act to issue content takedown orders, arguing these mechanisms are unconstitutional and bypass proper legal safeguards. The scale of the 62 emergency orders in those months reveals previously unknown extent of the content moderation directives from the government. X made the revelation to contend that current legal procedures under Section 69A of the IT Act - which was invoked in the 62 orders - are sufficient and work effectively even during security crises. "If both S.69A and S.79(3)(b) empower blocking, then the same information can be blocked by two separate mechanisms - one mechanism with the safeguards of S.69A and 2009 Blocking Rules, and another mechanism under S.79(3)(b) without any safeguards whatsoever. This is manifestly arbitrary and therefore, violative of Art. 14," X argued in its submissions. The ministry of electronics and information technology (Meity) did not respond to requests for a comment. The core of X's argument is that Section 69A already allows "all ministries, state governments and police" to request emergency content blocks through proper channels, making additional mechanisms unnecessary and constitutionally problematic. In response, the government has contended that X (formerly Twitter) has wrongly labelled the Sahyog portal as a tool for censorship. The company's main target is the government's Sahyog Portal, which it argues represents an unconstitutional expansion of blocking powers to thousands of officials who lack proper authority....