New Delhi: The Karnataka high court on Thursday (August 10) stayed an order passed by a single-judge bench imposing a cost of Rs 50 lakh on X Corp (formerly Twitter) for allegedly not complying with the IT ministry’s orders. However, the stay will only be in place if the company deposits 50% of the amount – or Rs 25 lakh – within one week.“As such, on deposit of ₹25 lakh, the order of the single judge bench is stayed until the next hearing date,” the high court said, according to PTI. The court made it clear that asking the company to deposit the amount should not be treated as an acceptance by the court that Twitter has a case, Moneycontrol reported.The earlier court order passed by the single-judge bench had held that Twitter did not comply with the IT ministry’s orders for over a year and then approached the court against the orders. The government’s orders sought the blocking of 1,474 accounts, 175 tweets, 256 URLs and one hashtag on Twitter. On Thursday too, the high court noted that Twitter had done nothing about the orders until the government sought to impose a fine, and only then approached the high court.“The court also noted that it was the company’s responsibility and not the government’s responsibility to show whether or not it had complied with the take down and blocking orders. Court also noted that it should have some regard for the law of the land,” Moneycontrol reported.The lawyer for X Corp said there was a communication gap as the government’s blocking order had come during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the company had followed the government’s orders.The case will next be heard on August 24.