New Delhi, April 24 -- A Delhi Court on Wednesday, April 22, ordered the registration of a first information report against commentator Abhijit Iyer Mitra after a complaint was filed by news platform Newslaundry's Editorial Director Manisha Pande, accusing him of using sexually abusive language against her and other women journalists on social media.

District Saket Court's Judicial Magistrate First Class Bhanu Pratap Singh passed the order while hearing the plea filed by Pande.

Posts count as 'sexually coloured remarks': Court

The court noted that Mitra's posts count as "sexually coloured remarks" and were "prima facie" intended to insult the modesty of the complainant, who was also named in the post.

The magistrate said that the "pol...