India, March 9 -- The Delhi High Court, on Tuesday, issued a notice while hearing a petition challenging India's new guidelines for digital media intermediaries.

The court will hear the parties at length on the next date of hearing, which is April 16.

Alarmed by the government extending its scope of powers to regulate news media, a clutch of digital news media organisations, last week, had filed a writ petition in the Delhi High Court, challenging the centre's new guidelines for digital media intermediaries, formally called the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021.

The petition has been filed by the Foundation for Independent Journalism (FIJ), a non-profit company that publishes The...