Supreme Court today refused to hear a plea of Chinese social media app TikTok for the transfer of cases relating to ban on it from the Madras High Court to the apex court. A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi did not agree with the contention of senior advocate A M Singhvi, appearing for the Chinese firm, that all the matters pending in the Madurai bench of the Madras High Court be transferred here for final and expeditious disposal.
Earlier, the apex court had directed the Madras High Court to decide on 24th April the plea of TikTok seeking interim relief of lifting the ban imposed by it. The Madras High Court had lifted its ban on the social media app with the condition that the platform should not be used to host obscene videos. The app allows users to create short videos and then share them.