The Delhi High Court has directed the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology to act expeditiously on the complaint of a man who claims that the photos of his deceased wife is being wrongly circulated on social media, depicting her as the victim of Hathras alleged gang-rape case.

"The respondent no. 1 (Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology) is directed to look into the complaint of the petitioner and, if the complaint of the petitioner is found to be correct, act on the same expeditiously, in any case, within a period of three days from the receipt of copy of this order, by issuing necessary directions to the respondent nos. 2 to 4 (Facebook, Twitter and Google) in this regard," said a single judge bench of Justice Navin Chawla in its order.