Kerala High Court directs Meta, Google to preserve social media content and records of Guruvayur MLA N.K. Akbar

The Kerala High Court has directed Google and Meta to preserve the social media data of Guruvayur MLA N.K. Akbar, including certain posts and YouTube videos allegedly prejudicial to his fellow candidate C.H. Rasheed, during the May 2026 Legislative Assembly elections.

Justice Harisankar V. Menon was considering a petition by Mr. Rasheed alleging that Mr. Akbar had engaged in corrupt practices during the election, through the circulation of certain pamphlets and videos.

Mr. Rasheed sought the immediate preservation of the impugned content along with edit and deletion history, timestamps, and other digital records for their use as evidence in the election petition.