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In India, 20 companies, including Google, Facebook and Microsoft, are accused of conspiracy, defamation, promoting enmity between different religious and racial groups, as well as distributing obscene materials.

The trial over the censorship on the web-content in India, involving 20 companies, including Google, Facebook and Microsoft, has been rescheduled for May 23, 2012. It is reported by The Register. Top managers of the companies were to appear in court on March 13 this year, but the highest court allowed them to do so. trial due to a complaint by journalist Vinay Rai, who argued that companies that working with the web-content, should be prosecuted on charges of conspiracy, defamation, promoting enmity between different religious and racial groups, as well as distributing obscene materials. It is worth noting that Google, Microsoft and Facebook is actively fighting for their excluded from the list of the companies mentioned in the suit, as has happened with Yahoo!. New legislation in India, which was adopted last year requires Internet companies to remove material that is objectionable, defamatory and obscene, within 36 hours after receipt of the notice on their placement. accused the company in favor of freedom of speech on the Internet and claim that they can not control the content without the receipt of complaints, given the volume of traffic to their sites. If companies are found guilty, the employees who are engaged in monitoring of content, face imprisonment and substantial fines.