Plaint against Twitter India MD, actor Swara Bhaskar in Ghaziabad assault case

Two days after Ghaziabad Police police booked Twitter Inc Twitter Communication India Pvt Ltd and others more troubles are brewing for the USbased social media giant as a complaint has been filed against it its India MD Manish Maheshwari Bollywood actor Swara Bhaskar journalist Arfa Khanum Sherwani and others for giving communal colour without fact checking truthfulness of an incidentThe complaint has also named Mohammad Asif Khan and was filed on June 16 at Tilak Marg police station by Advocate Amit AcharyaAn official said they are certifying the complaint and they will register a case only after thatIn his complaint Acharya alleged that some people had posted a video on social media of a man identified as Abdul Samad Saifi who was beaten thrashed and his beard was chopped off It was also contended that the miscreants were from Hindu community and they made Saifi to chant Vande Matram and Jai Shei Ram against his wishes Acharya allegedHe further alleged that Khan Sherwani Bhaskar who have their social media account got inspired from the incident and started a propaganda to spread hate amongst the citizensHe said that these users have lakhs of followers on Twitter and knowing the fact that their tweets have an impact in the society they gave communal colours to the incident without fact checking the truthfulness of the incidentThe concerned tweets were floated across the social media with the motive of hampering harmony and peace amongst the religious groups the advocate saidHe added that the tweets did not indicate their personal opinions instead showed their intentions of the users to initiate conspiracy against religious harmony in the country to encourage hate and enmity between the religious groupsHe also alleged that the users knowingly shared the false information and thereby committed offences under several sections of the Indian Penal CodeAcharya in his complaint also mentioned the findings of the Ghaziabad Police and said Saifi and the other miscreants already knew each other Saifi had sold a tabeez to them guaranteeing positive results And when it did not show positive results the miscreants beat him up The police took cognizance and arrested three persons in connection with the incidentHe said that the Ghaziabad Police also issued a statement on the intervening night of June 14 and 15 on its Twitter Handle regarding their findingsIn spite of clear information available the users used this incident to communalise and spread hate amongst the religions he saidCharging the Twitter Twitter India and its MD Acharya said Twitter Inc Twitter India its MD Maheshwari did not take any action to remove these false tweets knowing the fact that the incident didnt have any communal angleAlso it did not filter these tweets as manipulated media having the sole objective to disturb the peace and harmony among the citizensThe advocate further alleged that this is not the first time that these users have been accused of spreading false and hateful information through these platformsI request to get an FIR registered against Khan Bhaskar Sherwani Maheshwari Twitter Inc Twitter India and investigate the matter leading to a legal end by getting the alleged persons punished as per the laws of the land Acharya addedEarlier Ghaziabad Police had booked Twitter Inc Twitter India Mohammad Zubair The Wire Congress leader Shama Mohammad and several othersThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever