Twitter's counsel told the court that reasons are needed for users to decide whether or not to challenge blocking orders and that if they are not provided, reasons can be manufactured after the fact.
If reasons were not recorded in such blocking orders, there would be a possibility of their being manufactured at a later stage, counsel for Twitter argued.
Twitter argued before the Karnataka high court that the firm was asked to block entire accounts, although Section 69A of the IT Act does not permit that. It only permits to block information, or a tweet.
The microblogging site also argued that the law only allows the blocking of a particular tweet, and not an entire account simply because of political criticism unless there was evidence of a repeated offence.