UP police files FIR against Twitter, journalists over Ghaziabad attack posts

The Uttar Pradesh Police have booked microblogging platform Twitter a news portal and six persons for in connection with the circulation of a video in which an elderly Muslim man narrates his ordeal after he was allegedly attacked by some people in GhaziabadThe FIR which was lodged at the Loni Border police station in Ghaziabad around 1130 pm on Tuesday on the basis of a complaint lodged by a local policeman alleges that the video was shared with an intention to provoke communal unrestFIR registered against 9 including Twitter and some journalists in connection with the incident in Loni where a man was thrashed amp his beard was chopped offNo communal angle to incident Twitter has done nothing to stop video from going viral said Ghaziabad Police in FIR pictwittercom9FjDsjLa39mdash ANI UP ANINewsUP June 16 2021In the video clip which surfaced on social media on June 14 the elderly Muslim man Abdul Shamad Saifi alleges he was thrashed by some young men and asked to chant Jai Shri RamHowever the Ghaziabad police who have arrested six persons including Muslims have ruled out a communal angle They said the accused were unhappy about the tabeez amulet he had sold to themThe arrested youth have been identified as Kalloo and Adil Apart from them Polly Arif Mushahid and Parvesh Gurjar were also involved in the incident Senior Superintendent of Police Amit Pathak said on TuesdayLater on Tuesday the police lodged an FIR against Twitter Inc Twitter Communications India news website The Wire journalists Mohammad Zubair and Rana Ayyub Congress politicians Salman Nizami Masqoor Usmani Dr Sama Mohammad and writer Saba Naqvi for sharing the clipThese people did not verify the truth of the matter and shared it online with a communal angle with an intention to disrupt public peace and create a divide between religious groups the FIR statesBesides this Twitter Inc and Twitter Communications India also did not take any measures to remove their tweets it addsThe FIR has been lodged under Indian Penal Code sections 153 wantonly giving provocation with intent to cause riot 153A promoting enmity between groups on ground of religion class etc 295A Deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious belief 120B criminal conspiracy among 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