New Delhi: The Delhi High Court today excused former interim CBI Director M Nageswara Rao from paying a penalty of ₹ 25,000 imposed on him at the time of dismissal of his challenge to the alleged removal of "blue tick" from his Twitter account by the micro-blogging platform.
The retired IPS officer apologised unconditionally to the court and said that he was a pensioner who "was just asking for his identity to be secured". Waiving the penalty, Justice Yashwant Varma ordered, "Bearing in mind the unconditional apology which is tendered on behalf of the petitioner, the cost in terms of the order of May 17, 2022 shall stand deleted.
In May, the court had dismissed Rao's plea against the removal of the verification tag from his Twitter account while noting that "there was absolutely no justification which warranted the writ petition to be filed bearing in mind that the earlier writ petition was disposed of on April 7", the Judge said.