New Delhi: The Delhi Police, which raided Twitter India’s places of work within the nationwide capital and Gurugram in reference to its probe within the toolkit case, on Thursday stated the preliminary inquiry was registered on the criticism filed by a consultant of the Indian National Congress, including therefore efforts by Twitter to painting it as an FIR filed on the behest of the Government of India is wholly and utterly incorrect.
“We have come across press reports that quote Twitter Inc. statements pertaining to the ongoing inquiry by us. Prima facie, these statements are not only mendacious but designed to impede a lawful inquiry by a private enterprise,” stated the Delhi Police
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Stating Twitter declared that the toolkit was ‘manipulated media’, the Delhi Police stated this clearly reveals that it was acquainted with the information of the case and had materials info related to the probe.
“Hence, Twitter was asked to join the inquiry to provide the information it possesses,” added the Delhi Police.
The Delhi Police additional stated Twitter’s newest statements are “devised to seek dubious sympathy when they themselves not only refuse to comply with the law of the land but also claim possession of material evidence but refuse to share it with legal authority duly recognized”.
The response got here as Twitter earlier with out immediately referring to the Delhi Police motion stated it was frightened in regards to the security of its employees in India.
“Concerned by recent events regarding our employees in India & potential threat to freedom of expression for people we serve. We’ve concerns with regards to intimidation police’s tactics in response to enforcement of global Terms of Service & core elements of new IT Rules,” ANI quoted a Twitter spokesman as saying in an announcement.
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“We, alongside many in civil society in India and around the world, have concerns with regards to the use of intimidation tactics by the police in response to enforcement of our global Terms of Service,” the spokesman added.
The Delhi Police had earlier on Monday visited the Twitter places of work to serve a discover to Twitter’s India head for tagging a tweet of BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra as “manipulated media”.
The Indian authorities had earlier objected to Twitter for flagging the BJP chief’s tweet on the alleged Congress ‘toolkit’ that was claimed to be targetting the Centre over its Covid-19 dealing with.
