India, March 17 -- The Delhi high court on Tuesday ordered the removal within 24 hours of all existing allegedly defamatory content, including reports, social media posts, videos, and other material, uploaded from IP addresses in India linking Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri's daughter, Himayani Puri, to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

A bench of Justice Mini Pushkarna declined to order an immediate global takedown of the content, but directed that material uploaded outside India be blocked from being accessed within the country.

The court also issued summons in Himayani's defamation suit and fixed August 7 as the next date of hearing.

"Issue summons. Defendants number 1 to 14 and defendant number 21 (John Doe- unknown partie...