India, March 10 -- The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday sought the Union government's reply to the appeal filed by X Corp against a single judge's decision that had upheld the Centre's authority to issue content blocking directions through the central Sahyog portal for automatic takedown notices to online intermediaries.

A bench of Chief Justice Vibhu Bakhru and Justice CM Poonacha directed the Union government to file its reply within four weeks.

Senior counsel KG Raghavan, who appeared for X Corp, told the bench that the appeal seeks to overturn the single bench's judgment delivered on September 24 last year, which had dismissed the social media company's plea questioning the scope of Section 79(3)(b) of the Information Technology Act,...