Twitter India head applies for anticipatory bail

June 24, 2021 13:46

Manish Maheshwari. Pic courtesy: Facebook

Twitter's India head - Manish Maheshwari - seeks anticipatory bail ahead of his questioning today at the Loni police station on the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border.

Maheshwari is to be questioned in connection with tweets about the assault of a Muslim man in Ghaziabad.

Maheshwari had said he would be available for questioning via a video call, but was instead summoned for physical questioning at 10.30 am.

Atul Kumar Sonkar, the Circle Officer (Loni), said, "He did not reach the police station at the given time and is expected to reach here by noon."

An FIR was filed last week against Twitter India, several journalists and Congress leaders after an elderly man - Abdul Samad - alleged he was thrashed by some others and forced to chant "Jai Sri Ram" and "Vande Mataram".

A video of the incident was widely shared on social media.

Those named - who include journalists Rana Ayyub and Saba Naqvi, and Congress leaders Salman Nizami, Shama Mohamed and Maskoor Usmani - were accused of posting and sharing "misleading" tweets, and the video, and "provoking communal sentiments".

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