Pradeep Poonia posted a YouTube video about false WhiteHat Jr ads. Now the edtech company is suing him for defamation, trademark violation, and more in an effort to keep him quiet.
Pradeep Poonia asks for details on Wolf Gupta, consumer complaints against WhiteHat Jr: Report
January 7, 2021
During the latest hearing in WhiteHat Jr’s defamation case, Pradeep Poonia asked for the records of ‘Wolf Gupta’ and ‘Ryan Venkat’ ads that the company ran on Facebook and Instagram, as well as documents from the Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) and the Department of Consumer Affairs, where complaints against WhiteHat Jr were filed. In a LinkedIn post, Poonia said WhiteHat Jr opposed the request.
In October 2020, the Advertising Standards Council of India had asked WhiteHat Jr to remove five of its ads for making misleading claims on social media. One of the ads showed a 7-year-old girl as a TEDx speaker and app developer.
WhiteHat Jr s lawsuit against Pradeep Poonia gets a new hearing date; the latter seeks documents
Coding startup WhiteHat Jr has been told by the Delhi High Court to place all documents on the record before the next hearing of its lawsuit against Pradeep Poonia.
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Pradeep Poonia has got a new hearing date from the Delhi High Court. The matter will be next heard on February 1, Delhi HC judge
Justice Jayant Nath announced after a brief hearing on Wednesday. The court also directed WhiteHat Jr to place all documents on the record before the next date of hearing.
The documents requested by Poonia s lawyer
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Earlier this month, Time magazine named its first kid of the year–15-year-old Gitanjali Rao, an Indian-American, for technological achievements, including creating an app and browser extension that use artificial intelligence to detect cyberbullying. Rao is just the kind of person who could feature in the ads of WhiteHat Education Technology Pvt Ltd.