A third notice has been sent to Twitter by the Ghaziabad Police, and this time they have pulled up the microblogging site’s former grievance officer in India, Dharmendra Chatur in the Ghaziabad assault video case.
The notice issued to Dharmendra Chatur was under section 41A of the CrPC and had been asked to appear before the police and record statements.
In the FIR, notice was also sent to Congress’s Salman Nizami, Maskoor Usmani, Shama Mohame.
In the video clip, an elderly Muslim Man’s assault where it was reported that he had been thrashed by some men and was asked to chant “Jai Shri Ram”.
On June 15, the Ghaziabad Police had lodged an FIR against Twitter Inc, Twitter Communications India, The wire journalists Mohammad Zubair and Rana Ayyub, Congress’s Salman Nizami, Maskoor Usmani, Shama Mohammad, and writer Saba Naqvi for the sharing of the video.
The police had ruled out any communal angle in the incident and claimed that the videos were shared to cause social unrest.
Two FIR’s were lodged against senior officials of Twitter’s India Office, in UP and in Madhya Pradesh, over the social media giant putting up a distorted map of the country.
