Earlier today, the Karnataka High Court has canceled the UP Police notice which was mandated with Twitter India’s MD Manish Maheshwari in context to appear before them for the process of inquiry. It also said that police can either do inquiry virtually or meet Maheshwari at his residence or his office in Bengaluru.
UP Police has already sent the notice to Maheshwari under Section 160 and Section 41A for appearing before the Ghaziabad police for further inquiry.
On the judgment day on July 23, Justice G Narendar said the UP Police trying to invoke Section 41A is an arm-twisting tactic when it had not submitted any evidence proving that Maheshwari is indeed capable and had powers over the content on the platform.
At the time of the hearing, Maheshwari was contested on one of the legal provisions under which he was booked, under Section 41A, which empowered cops to arrest him on grounds that he didn’t cooperate with police, especially when he was just an employee and had no control over the content on the platform.
Maheshwari did challenge the notice at the Karnataka High Court on grounds of him being a resident of Bengaluru, the High Court has jurisdiction to hear the matter. He was granted interim bail.
Uttar Pradesh police have now denied all the claims and said that if Maheshwari was Twitter India’s managing director, he would have to cooperate with the inquiry.
