{"id":34066,"date":"2026-08-21T15:38:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T10:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/saurav-das-moves-delhi-hc-over-address-disclosure\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T15:38:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T10:08:24","slug":"saurav-das-moves-delhi-hc-over-address-disclosure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/saurav-das-moves-delhi-hc-over-address-disclosure\/","title":{"rendered":"Saurav Das Moves Delhi HC Over Address Disclosure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div xmlns:default=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" id=\"\">\n<div class=\"f3e032cb\"><picture class=\"c62bd949\" style=\"visibility:visible\"><source media=\"(max-width: 768px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.bhaskarassets.com\/webp\/thumb\/360x0\/web2images\/1884\/2026\/08\/21\/images-57_1787306040.jpg\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.bhaskarassets.com\/webp\/thumb\/512x0\/web2images\/1884\/2026\/08\/21\/images-57_1787306040.jpg\"\/><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/images.bhaskarassets.com\/web2images\/1884\/2026\/08\/21\/images-57_1787306040.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"eager\" class=\"f97587ba\"\/><\/picture><\/div>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\">Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) spokesperson and activist Saurav Das has moved the Delhi High Court against media commentator Abhijit Iyer-Mitra, LawBeat, The Pamphlet, The Jaipur Dialogues and The Sunday Guardian, alleging that his residential address and personal information were publicly disclosed.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:0\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\"><span class=\"e913fbaa d3886593\"><strong>Seeks privacy protection and damages<\/strong><\/span><strong\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\">Das has sought \u20b92.01 lakh in damages, alleging violation of his right to privacy. He has also sought a permanent injunction restraining the defendants from publishing, circulating or disclosing his residential address and personal details.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\">He has further sought directions to remove and disable access to videos and social media posts that allegedly contain the information.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:0\"\/><span style=\"font-size:0\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\"><span class=\"e913fbaa d3886593\"><strong>Alleges trespass and disclosure of address<\/strong><\/span><strong\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\">According to the suit, Das has been living in a rented ground-floor room in Greater Kailash-I since early 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\">He alleged that representatives of The Pamphlet entered the shared residential premises without permission, recorded its interiors and uploaded the footage on X on August 5.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\">The video allegedly revealed his residential address and has received more than 2.1 million views. It was also republished on August 10, the suit states.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\">Das has alleged that Iyer-Mitra subsequently disclosed his address during a LawBeat programme, including the name of his neighbour and an incorrect claim about his monthly rent being around \u20b97 lakh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\"><span class=\"e913fbaa d3886593\"><strong>Google, X Corp also named in plea<\/strong><\/span><strong\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\">Das has sought directions to X Corp and Google to remove the content revealing his residential information and prevent its further dissemination.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\">He said he filed a police complaint on August 5 and informed the defendants about the alleged security risks, but claimed the disclosures continued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\">The plea states that repeated publication of the information could increase the risk of Das, his family and other residents facing intimidation, harassment or physical violence.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:0\"\/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) spokesperson and activist Saurav Das has moved the Delhi High Court against media commentator Abhijit Iyer-Mitra, LawBeat, The Pamphlet, The Jaipur Dialogues and The Sunday Guardian, alleging that his residential address and personal information were publicly disclosed. Seeks privacy protection and damages Das has sought \u20b92.01 lakh in damages, alleging violation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[30318,30317,22398,30320,28587,30319,30316,21965],"class_list":["post-34066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nation","tag-abhijit-iyer-mitra","tag-cjp-spokesperson","tag-delhi-high-court","tag-digital-privacy","tag-legal-notice","tag-personal-information","tag-privacy-breach","tag-saurav-das"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}