New Delhi, April 4 -- An appeal has been moved before the Delhi High Court by Raipur-based social and RTI activist Kunal Shukla, challenging a Single Judge's ex parte takedown order concerning Himayani Puri, daughter of Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri, with the matter slated to be heard by a Division Bench on Monday.

The appeal, filed through counsels Mayank Jain, Madhur Jain, and Arpit Goel, assails the March 16 order passed by a Single Judge of the Delhi High Court directing social media platforms and online intermediaries to remove or block access within India to allegedly defamatory content linking Himayani Puri to convicted American sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The impugned order had been passed in a suit filed by Himayani Puri ...