Justice Prathiba Singh of the Delhi High Court on Friday recused herself from hearing the petition challenging the updated privacy policy of messaging giant WhatsApp.
In a brief hearing, Justice Singh took objection to an email sent to the court by WhatsApp, and on account of that she took the decision.
Law platform Bar & Bench said it was “understood that the email pointed out that Justice Singh had appeared in a connected matter when she was a lawyer”.
WhatsApp later withdrew the email unconditionally.
“I am not going to hear this case. I was, in any case, not going

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