Twitter did not 'remove false tweets': Delhi lawyer files police complaint against Twitter Inc, Swara …

tech2 News StaffJun 17, 2021 11:13:03 ISTDelhi-based lawyer Amit Acharya has filed a police complaint against actress Swara Bhaskar, “Twitter Inc”, “Twitter Communication India Pvt Ltd” and Twitter India MD Manish Maheswari, for “not taking any action” to remove “false tweets”. The complaint comes after an elderly Muslim man was reportedly beaten up in a town in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad district on 5 June, and the video of the abuse went viral on Twitter. Tweets around the incident indicated that the victim was forced to chant “Jai Shree Ram” by the attackers, a claim that was later denied by the Ghaziabad Police. Based on a separate complaint by another individual, an FIR was filed in relation to this incident on 15 June, against nine accused including “Twitter Inc” and “Twitter Communications India Pvt Ltd”. In his complaint, Acharya claims that Swara Bhaskar, Mohammed Asif Khan and Arfa Khanum Sherwani, used Twitter to start “propaganda to spread hate amongst the citizens” and “gave communal colours to the incident”. Image: Pixabay He adds in his complaint that the tweets about the elderly Muslim man’s abuse were shared by the accused with intent to “initiate conspiracy against religious harmony in the country to encourage hate and…
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