Jack Ma. Photo credit: World Economic Forum/Jolanda Flubacher, under Creative Commons license

An Indian court has served a summons for Chinese tech giant Alibaba and its famed founder Jack Ma to testify in a case in which a former Alibaba employee in India claims he was wrongfully terminated after pushing against what he saw as censorship and fake news on company apps. The employee of concern worked at UC Web, the Chinese web browser company that Alibaba acquired in 2014. He, Pushpandra Singh Parmar by name, alleges that Alibaba censored content seen as unfavorable to China and that its apps UC Browser and UC News showed false news “to cause social and political turmoil”.

A Civil Judge in the city of Gurugram, India has issued a summons for Jack Ma, who stepped down from Alibaba last year, as well as about a dozen individuals or company units, requesting they appear in court through a lawyer on the 29th of July. The judge is also seeking written responses from the company and its executives within 30 days. The summons notably comes on the heels of India banning dozens of Chinese apps, including UC News and UC Browser, after a spat between the country and China.

The news of the summons was first reported by Reuters.