Twitter India MD Manish Maheshwari will appear before the police at 10.30 am today, in connection with the viral video of an elderly muslim man being beaten and beard being cut off in Loni, Ghaziabad district of Uttar Pradesh.
Action in case organisation doesn’t comply with order
In a second notice sent to Twitter India MD Maneesh Maheshwari, Ghaziabad Senior Superintendent of Police Amit Pathak warned action under Section 41 A (notice of appearance before police officer) of the CrPC can be taken in case the organisation doesn’t comply with the order.
“Clarification given by you is inappropriate. Being the MD of Twitter in India, you are the representative of the company. Therefore, you are bound by the Indian law to cooperate in the investigation,” the notice sent by the police said.
List of 11 questions
It further said that the police have prepared a list of 11 questions for Maheshwari, including the one about failure to remove the controversial video. The police will also ask about the number of complaints against the video and what action the micro-blogging platform has taken, according to Livehindustan.
Ghaziabad Police had earlier booked Twitter Inc and Twitter Communications India, as well as The Wire, journalists Mohammed Zubair and Rana Ayyub, Congress’s Salman Nizami, Maskoor Usmani, Shama Mohamed, and writer Saba Naqvi.
Police invoked IPC sections 153 (provocation for rioting), 153A (promoting enmity between different groups), 295A (acts intended to outrage religious feelings), 505 (mischief), 120B (criminal conspiracy) and 34 (common intention) against them.
