India, March 28 -- The ongoing legal battle between Elon Musk-led X Corp and the Centre inder the IT Act Sec 69A and Sec 79) has taken a new turn as the Centre now looks to file objections to a lawsuit filed by X in the Karnataka High Court earlier this month.

In its petition, X challenged the Centre's use of Section 79(3)(b) of the Information Technology (IT) Act to block content. It contended that the section contradicts the Supreme Court's Shreya Singhal judgment, which permits content blocking only through the Section 69A framework of the IT Act or court orders.

An ET report, citing Justice M Nagaprasanna's hearing on March 27, said that the Union of India had informed the court that it would file objections within the same day. Fol...