Cockroach Janta Social gathering (CJP) chief spokesperson Saurav Das has moved the Delhi Excessive Court docket towards media commentator Abhijit Iyer-Mitra, digital media platform The Pamphlet, authorized information platform Regulation Beat and social media accounts The Jaipur Dialogues and The Sunday Guardian, alleging that they revealed his residential tackle and different private info on social media.
In response to a report by Bar and Bench, Das has sought greater than ₹2 crore in damages for a violation of his privateness. He has additionally requested everlasting injunctions restraining the defendants from publishing or circulating the knowledge. The go well with additionally names Google LLC and X Corp (previously Twitter) as defendants.
In response to the go well with, the defendants have unlawfully found, recorded, revealed, and repeatedly disseminated his residential tackle and different deeply private and delicate info regarding his background, particulars about his mother and father, and his sexuality.
Das argued that repeated disclosure and amplification of his exact residential tackle created “an actual and foreseeable threat” of violence towards him and others dwelling round his residence.
The go well with alleged that Iyer-Mitra disclosed details about Das’s residence throughout a Regulation Beat programme by naming one among his neighbours and incorrectly claiming that the month-to-month hire was round Rs 7 lakh. It mentioned Iyer-Mitra subsequently revealed a number of posts containing the knowledge.
Das mentioned that he has been dwelling in a rented room on the bottom ground of a Better Kailash-I property since early 2025, and that representatives of The Pamphlet trespassed into the shared residential premises, recorded its interiors, and revealed the footage on the social media platform X on August 5.
The video, which allegedly disclosed his residential tackle, acquired greater than 2.1 million views and was republished on August 10, in accordance with experiences.
In his August 5 police criticism, Das sought registration of an FIR underneath the provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita for alleged home trespass, legal intimidation, defamation, and legal conspiracy. He additionally notified the defendants of the alleged safety dangers, however mentioned the disclosures continued.
In a submit on X that day, Das described the alleged trespass as an “invasion of his privateness”.
“If anti-social components assault me at my residence on account of this, these YouTubers and their troll handlers who’re coordinating this might be immediately accountable,” he wrote, tagging Delhi Police.
Iyer-Mitra questions go well with and its funding
Reacting to the go well with, Iyer-Mitra claimed that Meta and Instagram, which he described as Das’s “largest promoter”, weren’t among the many events sued.
In his submit, Iyer-Mitra questioned Das’s description of himself within the petition as a “transparency & RTI activist” and additional requested who was financing Das’s authorized motion, suggesting that the senior lawyer showing within the case would point out the character of the “monetary assist ecosystem” behind him.
The matter is anticipated to come back up earlier than the Delhi Excessive Court docket on August 24.
