New Delhi, April 2 -- The Delhi high court on Thursday ordered the immediate takedown of the song Volume 1 by singers Honey Singh and Badshah, released in 2006-07 under their collaboration "Mafia Mundeer", across all platforms, observing that it is "grossly vulgar, patently obscene, and derogatory towards women, artistic values, and social norms."

A bench of Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav, while hearing a petition filed by Hindu Shakti Dal seeking the song's removal, observed that the lyrics were not merely offensive but were ex facie calculated to normalise the portrayal of women as objects of ridicule and sexual gratification.

Directing the two singers, along with any other people claiming rights in the song, to take it down from a...