New Delhi: The Uttar Pradesh Police have summoned Twitter India managing director Manish Maheshwari for questioning in connection with the posting and promotion on the microblogging site of an allegedly manipulated video of the assault of an elderly Muslim man in Ghaziabad.
Manish has been asked to report to a police station at Loni Border near Delhi and record his statement within seven days Ghaziabad Police sent the legal notice to Twitter India boss over viral video of an elderly man in Loni being assaulted with the intent of ‘provoking communal unrest’.
The summon was issued two days after Twitter, news website wire.in, journalists and Congress leaders were booked for ‘promoting enmity between religions’ for posting and promoting the video amid conflicting narratives of the attack.