Toolkit row: Truth remains unafraid, says Rahul Gandhi

A day after the Delhi Polices Special Cell reached the doorsteps of Twitter India offices in Delhi and Haryanas Gurugram in connection with alleged Congress toolkit probe former Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday took a potshot at the government saying truth remains unafraidIn a tweet Rahul Gandhi said Truth remains unafraidTruth remains unafraid Toolkitmdash Rahul Gandhi RahulGandhi May 25 2021His remarks came a day after the Special Cell sleuths arrived at the offices of Twitter in south Delhis Lado Sarai and Haryanas Gurugram to deliver notices to its officials However the offices of the Twitter were found shutIn a statement Delhi Police said Delhi police team went to Twitter office to serve a notice to Twitter as a part of routine process This was necessitated as we wanted to ascertain who is the right person to serve a notice as replies by Twitter India MD have been very ambiguousDelhi Police has launched a preliminary enquiry into the alleged Congress toolkit and had served notice to Manish Maheshwari on May 21 On Monday Delhi Police had said We are inquiring into a complaint in which clarification is sought from Twitter regarding the classification of a tweet by BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra as manipulativeAlso Read Delhi Police raids Twitter offices in Delhi and Gurgaon in connection with Covid19 toolkit probeThe statement said that it appears that Twitter has some information which is not known to us on the basis of which it has classified it as suchThis information is relevant to the inquiry The Special Cell which is conducting the inquiry wants to find out the truth Twitter which has claimed to know the underlying truth should clarify the statement addedIn its notice to Twitter India MD Delhi Police had asked Maheshwari to be present in the office of the Special Cell on May 22 at 1 pm with all the relevant documents but he did not turn upTwitter had described the tweet of BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra as manipulated media last week Patra had shared the alleged toolkit of the Congress accusing it of trying to defame the image of Prime Minister Narendra Modi The alleged toolkit sparked a row last week as Congress approached Delhi Police to register an FIR against Patra BJP national President JP Nadda party leader BL Santhosh Union Minister Smriti Irani and others for forgeryThe Chhattisgarh Police also registered a case on the complaint of NSUI over the alleged toolkit and recorded the statement of former Chief Minister Raman Singh and also served notice to PatraThis 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