印度商人高塔姆·阿达尼在印度拉伊加德县乌尔韦举行的纳维孟买国际机场揭幕仪式上，向印度总理纳伦德拉·莫迪赠送纪念牌。摄于2025年10月8日。 —— 路透社 印度法院称纪录片是“戏剧化叙事”。
Indian businessman Gautam Adani presents a plaque to India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the inauguration of the Navi Mumbai International Airport in Ulwe, Raigad district, India, October 8, 2025. — Reuters India court says documentary is a "dramatised narrative". India court asks X, YouTube, Instagram to remove the film. Adani group sued Hotmail co-founder Sabeer Bhatia.
印度法院责令X、YouTube、Instagram下架该片。阿达尼集团起诉Hotmail联合创始人萨比尔·巴蒂亚。
NEW DELHI: An Indian court has ordered the takedown of an online documentary posted by Hotmail co-founder Sabeer Bhatia accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi and billionaire Gautam Adani of cronyism, after Adani Enterprises sued, calling it defamatory. Adani's flagship firm, Adani Enterprises, told the High Court in eastern city of Kolkata that the documentary, which garnered millions of views on social media in recent days, was riddled with false content and had prompted inquiries from some investors in the company, whom the court order did not name.
新德里：印度一家法院下令撤下Hotmail联合创始人萨比尔·巴蒂亚在网上发布的一部纪录片，该片指控总理纳伦德拉·莫迪和亿万富翁高塔姆·阿达尼存在裙带关系；阿达尼企业有限公司提起诉讼，称该片具有诽谤性。
The documentary "is not a news report or an account of proceedings.
阿达尼集团旗舰公司阿达尼企业有限公司向东部城市加尔各答高等法院表示，这部纪录片在近几天于社交媒体上获得数百万次观看，内容充斥着虚假信息，并引发了该公司部分投资者的询问，法院命令未透露这些投资者姓名。
It is a dramatised narrative," the court's takedown order for YouTube, X and Meta issued late on Monday said.
法院于周一晚间向YouTube、X和Meta发出的下架令称，该纪录片“并非新闻报道或程序记录，而是一种戏剧化叙事”。
Adani Enterprises, Modi's office and Bhatia did not respond to requests for comment, and neither did the social media companies.
阿达尼企业有限公司、莫迪办公室、巴蒂亚均未回应置评请求，上述社交媒体公司也未回应。
Modi's opponents have often accused the prime minister of having close ties with Adani, saying the business tycoon has received favourable treatment over the years.
莫迪的反对者经常指责这位总理与阿达尼关系密切，称这位商业大亨多年来获得优待。印度政府和阿达尼集团多次否认这些指控。
The Indian government and the Adani group have repeatedly denied those allegations. In its challenge, Adani Enterprises told the court that it does not seek to restrain constructive criticism of government policy or of business concentration, but Bhatia had suppressed material facts, according to the court order.
根据法院命令，阿达尼企业有限公司在起诉中称，该公司并不寻求限制对政府政策或商业垄断的建设性批评，但巴蒂亚隐瞒了重要事实。
Bhatia, who is based in the US, wrote on his X account the lawsuit demands 500 million rupees ($5.25 million) in damages.
定居美国的巴蒂亚在其X账号上写道，该诉讼要求赔偿5亿卢比（约合525万美元）。他在一条X帖文中写道“真理站在我这边”。
In one X post, he wrote "Truth is on my side". "I believe the documentary has rattled Adani Enterprises Limited and struck a nerve at the highest levels," he wrote.
“我相信这部纪录片让阿达尼企业有限公司感到震惊，并触动了最高层的神经，”他写道。
Bhatia is the co-founder of once-popular email service Hotmail, which he sold to Microsoft in 1997.
巴蒂亚曾是广受欢迎的电子邮件服务 Hotmail 的联合创始人，他在 1997 年将其出售给微软。
Order to take down In an interim order in force until January 31, 2027, the court ordered YouTube, X and Meta's Instagram to remove several posts of the 36-minute film, "The Friendship Files”.
下架令 在一份有效期至 2027 年 1 月 31 日的临时命令中，法院命令 YouTube、X 和 Meta 旗下的 Instagram 删除多条关于这部时长 36 分钟的影片《友谊档案》的帖子。法院还限制巴蒂亚传播该视频。该案的审理预计将于 1 月恢复。
It also restrained Bhatia from disseminating the video. Hearings in the case are likely to resume in January. Ahead of the court challenge, police in the state of Maharashtra, which is led by Modi's ruling alliance, sent a takedown notice to Bhatia on October 19, saying the content "made serious unsubstantiated allegations".
在法院诉讼之前，由莫迪执政联盟领导的马哈拉施特拉邦警方于 10 月 19 日向巴蒂亚发出下架通知，称该内容“提出了严重的未经证实的指控”。
Modi’s political opponents have repeatedly been sharing the documentary, saying it reflected similar allegations they had made about the two men.
莫迪的政治对手多次转发这部纪录片，称其反映了他们对这两人提出的类似指控。
The film used archival footage to trace the history of the relationship between Modi and Adani, starting in the western state of Gujarat, where both men come from.
影片利用档案影像追溯了莫迪与阿达尼关系的历史，始于两人均来自的西部古吉拉特邦。
It raised questions about Adani's winning bid for six airports in 2019 after a government rule change that critics say favoured his enterprise — allegations similar to those levelled by the opposition Congress party.
影片对阿达尼集团在政府修改规则后于 2019 年中标六座机场提出质疑，批评者称该规则变更有利于其企业——这些指控与反对党国大党提出的指控相似。
The Adani group has denied such allegations and the government says all regulations were complied with and there is no favouritism.
阿达尼集团否认此类指控，政府表示所有法规均已遵守，不存在偏袒。
Earlier, regional opposition leader and Modi critic Raj Thackeray shared the documentary on his X account where it garnered 4.8 million views, but took it down saying he was doing it at the request of the Mumbai police commissioner.
此前，地区反对派领袖、莫迪批评者拉吉·塔克雷在其 X 账号上分享了该纪录片，获得 480 万次观看，但随后将其删除，称是应孟买警察专员的要求这样做。
Mahua Moitra, another political opponent of Modi and a lawmaker, posted the documentary on October 11, and said it was still online.
莫迪的另一位政治对手、议员马胡阿·莫伊特拉于 10 月 11 日发布了该纪录片，并称其仍在线。
"I posted this on Oct 11th.
“我于 10 月 11 日发布了此内容。它仍在我的时间线上，请观看，”她周一晚间在 X 上写道。
It is still on my timeline so do watch it," she wrote on X on Monday night.