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The Supreme Court on 28 September 2026 told the Centre that social media intermediaries allowing minors to open accounts must conform to Indian law, asking how platforms could permit twelve or thirteen year olds to hold accounts when a minor's consent to a contract is void under the Indian Contract Act. The bench, hearing a public interest litigation filed by the non-profit Just Rights for Children Alliance, asked the government to consider framing directions under the Information Technology Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code Rules, 2021, so that platforms enforce a minimum membership age of eighteen years, failing which the court said it would be compelled to issue its own directions. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta told the court that the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 already provided some safeguards but that a fuller statutory response would need more time.