The Delhi High Court on Wednesday strongly criticised news agency Asian News International (ANI) for directly approaching YouTube to block the channel of Dynamite News Network while its copyright infringement case was still pending before the court.

A division bench of Justice C Hari Shankar and Justice Om Prakash Shukla dismissed ANI’s appeal against a single judge’s March 21 order directing YouTube to unblock the rival news platform’s channel.

“We express our displeasure in the manner the appellant has proceeded in this matter,” the bench said, adding that ANI’s approach “deserves to be deprecated.”

ANI had filed a copyright infringement suit alleging that Dynamite News uploaded several of its videos without authorisation. On March 21, 2024, Dynamite News told the single judge that ni

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