<p>Uttar Pradesh Police sent a legal notice to the Managing Director of Twitter India and asked him to appear before it over a viral video, where elderly man Abdul Samad Saifi was <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/was-beaten-up-forced-to-chant-jai-shri-ram-elderly-muslim-man-says-in-viral-video-police-say-no-such-allegations-in-fir-997499.html" target="_blank">allegedly beaten up</a>, had his beard chopped, and was forced to chant 'Jai Shri Ram' by four men.</p>.<p>A notice sent by the Ghaziabad Police, probing the incident of assault on Saifi, asked Twitter India MD to appear before the investigating officer at Loni Border Police Station to record a statement in seven days.</p>.<p>For the first time, Twitter faced a case in Uttar Pradesh earlier this week as the Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology claimed that Twitter lost legal protection for third-party contents after the company failed to follow the new IT rules. </p>.<p>The Ghaziabad police registered an FIR on June 15 against the US-based microblogging site for third-party content saying that the video circulated on its platform with the intention of "provoking communal unrest."</p>.<p>The police also booked a case aganst a news portal and six people, including journalists and Congress leaders for circulating a video in which Saifi said that he was thrashed and told to chant "Jai Shri Ram'', claiming that it was done to create communal unrest.</p>.<p>Ghaziabad police, who arrested a few people, had ruled out a communal angle in the assault. The police said the accused were unhappy about a ''tabeez'' (amulet) he had sold to them.</p>.<p>The police in the FIR also said that despite police clarifying the issue, the accused did not delete their tweets and neither did Twitter make efforts to delete them.</p>.<p>Recently, Delhi Police's Special Cell interrogated Twitter India Managing Director Manish Maheshwari in Bengaluru over the 'Congress toolkit case' matter.</p>.<p>A complaint has been filed with the Delhi Police against the social media giant's India MD Manish Maheshwari, Bollywood actor Swara Bhasker, journalist Arfa Khanum Sherwani and others for giving communal colour without fact-checking the truthfulness of an incident.</p>.<p>The complaint, which also named Mohammad Asif Khan, was filed on June 16 at Tilak Marg police station by advocate Amit Acharya.</p>.<p>Journalists' bodies, including the Press Club of India, condemned the case registered against the social media company and journalists, and demanded the immediate withdrawal of all cases.</p>
<p>Uttar Pradesh Police sent a legal notice to the Managing Director of Twitter India and asked him to appear before it over a viral video, where elderly man Abdul Samad Saifi was <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/was-beaten-up-forced-to-chant-jai-shri-ram-elderly-muslim-man-says-in-viral-video-police-say-no-such-allegations-in-fir-997499.html" target="_blank">allegedly beaten up</a>, had his beard chopped, and was forced to chant 'Jai Shri Ram' by four men.</p>.<p>A notice sent by the Ghaziabad Police, probing the incident of assault on Saifi, asked Twitter India MD to appear before the investigating officer at Loni Border Police Station to record a statement in seven days.</p>.<p>For the first time, Twitter faced a case in Uttar Pradesh earlier this week as the Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology claimed that Twitter lost legal protection for third-party contents after the company failed to follow the new IT rules. </p>.<p>The Ghaziabad police registered an FIR on June 15 against the US-based microblogging site for third-party content saying that the video circulated on its platform with the intention of "provoking communal unrest."</p>.<p>The police also booked a case aganst a news portal and six people, including journalists and Congress leaders for circulating a video in which Saifi said that he was thrashed and told to chant "Jai Shri Ram'', claiming that it was done to create communal unrest.</p>.<p>Ghaziabad police, who arrested a few people, had ruled out a communal angle in the assault. The police said the accused were unhappy about a ''tabeez'' (amulet) he had sold to them.</p>.<p>The police in the FIR also said that despite police clarifying the issue, the accused did not delete their tweets and neither did Twitter make efforts to delete them.</p>.<p>Recently, Delhi Police's Special Cell interrogated Twitter India Managing Director Manish Maheshwari in Bengaluru over the 'Congress toolkit case' matter.</p>.<p>A complaint has been filed with the Delhi Police against the social media giant's India MD Manish Maheshwari, Bollywood actor Swara Bhasker, journalist Arfa Khanum Sherwani and others for giving communal colour without fact-checking the truthfulness of an incident.</p>.<p>The complaint, which also named Mohammad Asif Khan, was filed on June 16 at Tilak Marg police station by advocate Amit Acharya.</p>.<p>Journalists' bodies, including the Press Club of India, condemned the case registered against the social media company and journalists, and demanded the immediate withdrawal of all cases.</p>
