UP Police Asked Twitter India MD To Come Police Station Over Users’ Tweets On Man’s Assault
Meanwhile, Twitter India MD Manish Maheshwari was also questioned by Delhi Police on May 31 in a 'toolkit' case related to the Congress party
Mumbai: Uttar Pradesh Police has asked Twitter India’s Managing Director Manish Maheshwari to come to a police station and record his statement over users’ tweets on a video of an elderly Muslim man’s assault.
The MD has been asked to come to the Police Station Loni Border and record the statement within seven days.
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Earlier this week, the Uttar Pradesh Police arrested five people in connection with the alleged attack on an elderly Muslim man in Loni. In a video clip that surfaced on social media on June 14, Abdul Shamad Saifi, an elderly Muslim man, can be heard saying that he was thrashed by some youths and asked to chant “Jai Shri Ram”.
While the police denied a communal angle in the incident, an FIR was registered against nine entities, including Twitter India, after some people on the microblogging site gave a communal angle to the incident. Police claimed that people shared the video on their handle without verifying the authenticity of the handle.
“There is no communal angle to the incident in Loni where a man was thrashed and his beard was chopped off. The following entities — The Wire, Rana Ayyub, Mohammad Zubair, Dr Shama Mohammed, Saba Naqvi, Maskoor Usmani, Salman Nizami — without checking the fact, started giving communal colour to the incident on Twitter and suddenly they started spreading messages to disrupt the peace and bring differences between the religious communities,” the FIR said.
Meanwhile, Twitter India MD Manish Maheshwari was also questioned by Delhi Police on May 31 in a ‘toolkit’ case related to the Congress party.
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