Nerve Endings Firing Away

The phenomenon of companies threatening bloggers in India is back. This time Google India has been sued by Gremach Infrastructure Equipments & Projects to reveal details of a blogger who wrote against the company’s mines in Mozambique [via]. After failing to obtain the necessary cooperation from Mumbai Police’s Cyber Cell, Gremach moved the High Court which ordered Google India to removed the blog and provide the details of the blogger. Google disabled the blog but hasn’t revealed the identity yet.

Now Gremach is hell bent upon finding the identity of the blogger, “Toxic Writer” who they claim is waging a hate campaign against the company and is posting lies on the blog. Or could it be that the blogger is a whistle blower who is genuinely interested in exposing the company’s misdeeds? Mining, construction company, and a remote, and poor African nation – all are potent indicators of fishy acts and Gremach’s insistence on knowing the identity of the blogger in spite of the blog being taken down is definitely indicative of suspicious activity. I hope Google India manages to stave off this unfair request of betraying a blogger’s identity in a democratic nation. This lawsuit hasn’t yet made news in the blogosphere but could have adverse effects on every blogger in India if Gremach’s request is granted.