No Coercive Action By UP Police: Karnataka Court Grants Interim Relief To Twitter India Head
Twitter India MD Manish Maheshwari, who lives in Bengaluru, Karnataka, received a notice from the Ghaziabad police on June 17, asking him to join the investigation
Mumbai: The Karnataka High Court on Thursday granted interim relief to Twitter India chief Manish Maheshwari, asking the Ghaziabad Police not to take any coercive action against him.
Bangalore-based Maheshwari moved the High Court on Thursday after Ghaziabad police called her to record her statement at her Loni Border police station, in relation to a video showing a hate crime targeting a Muslim man in Ghaziabad. seemed for, and it was extended as such. However, the police later claimed that it was not a communal incident.
Maheshwari’s lawyer told the court that he was an employee of Twitter and had nothing to do with the crime. He also highlighted that Ghaziabad Police wanted Maheshwari to be present in person despite Supreme Court and high court stating that the statement can be recorded through video-conferencing.
Twitter India MD Manish Maheshwari, who lives in Bengaluru, Karnataka, received a notice from the Ghaziabad police on June 17, asking him to join the investigation. The police also gave him seven days to record his statement in the case.
The Ghaziabad police had on June 15 registered a case against Twitter Inc, Twitter Communications India, news website The Wire, journalists Mohammad Zubair and Rana Ayyub, besides Congress leaders Salman Nizami, Muskoor Usmani, Shama Mohammad and author Saba Naqvi.
The police allege that these people mentioned above tried to disturb communal harmony by spreading such messages. In the video, the elderly man, Abdul Shamad Saifi, claimed that he was thrashed by some youths, who asked him to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’ on June 5. Journalist Rana Ayyub was granted transit anticipatory bail for a period of four. week in respect of the case by the Bombay High Court.
Police claim that the altercation was not due to any communal reason but over some amulets sold by the man to a few youths in the area who assaulted him over the sale. Police arrested nine men – Kalloo Gurjar, Parvesh Gurjar, Adil, Intezaar, Saddam, Himanshu, Anas, Shavez and Babu – following the assault on the elderly man.
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