BENGALURU, June 30 (Reuters) - India's Karnataka High Court on Friday dismissed Twitter's plea challenging the federal government's orders to block tweets and accounts and imposed a fine of 5 million rupees ($60,943.65), a lawyer for Twitter told Reuters.
The court on Friday ruled that Twitter was served notices, to which it did not comply, India's Deputy Minister for Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar said in a tweet.
The U.S.-based firm had last year asked the court to overturn some government orders to remove content from the social media platform.
The country's IT act allows the government to block public access to content in the interest of national security, among other reasons.
($1 = 82.0430 Indian rupees)Reporting by Indranil Sarkar and Chris Thomas in Bengaluru; Editing by Dhanya Ann ThoppilOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
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