The Delhi High Court on Monday directed social media platforms Facebook, Google and YouTube to remove a video blog that allegedly criticises the flour made and marketed by yoga guru Ramdev’s Patanjali Ayurved, PTI reported. In the interim order, Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw also asked the three to reveal the identity of the owners of the blog and the URLs they were registered in.

The court’s interim order asks the three social media platforms to restrict access to the links and contents of the blog.

The court’s order was in response to a petition filed by Patanjali that sought the removal of a Tamil video blog that allegedly disparaged its flour made by them as well as ITC’s Aashirvaad flour brand.

The video blog purportedly described the brands’ products as rubber, Patanjali’s petition said. Senior advocate Rajiv Nayar, who represents Patanjali, told the bench that a Bengaluru court had granted an interim stay order against the blog after ITC filed a petition.

Nayar said that the three social media platforms had not acted against the video blog despite a request from his client to do so. It scheduled the next hearing for May 15.