Alibaba, Jack Ma Summoned by Indian Court Over Ex-Employee’s Lawsuit

Alibaba, Jack Ma Summoned by Indian Court Over Ex-Employee’s Lawsuit
Jack Ma poses for the media at the Alibaba booth during the opening day of the CeBIT technology fair in Hanover, central Germany, on March 16, 2015. Tobias Schwarz/AFP/Getty Images
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NEW DELHI—An Indian court has summoned Alibaba and its founder Jack Ma in a case where a former employee in India alleges he was wrongfully fired after objecting to what he saw as censorship and fake news on company apps, documents seen by Reuters showed.

The case comes weeks after India, citing security concerns, banned Alibaba’s UC News, UC Browser, and 59 other apps, mostly Chinese-developed, after a border clash between the two countries’ forces.