Chandigarh, March 25 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court on Tuesday sought response by the next week from the Punjab government on a plea moved by social media platform "X", formerly Twitter, challenging Punjab Police asking the platform to takedown some articles.

In the application filed by the platform, it has sought clarification from the court about an order passed on January 28 on the basis of which it has been told to remove 22 odd articles/videos. "Seven of the posts are not even available. The remaining 15 are merely reporting by established media houses, journalists, and fair commentary on public events. They do not glorify crime and criminals," the social media platform told the court.

Senior advocate Ashish Chopra had submit...