The ministry stated that the authorities assures that representatives of social media firms together with Twitter are and can all the time stay protected in India.
In a fierce response to Twitter over its assertion elevating concern over ‘potential risk to freedom of expression’ in India, the Centre on Thursday requested the micro-blogging platform to ‘cease beating around the bush and comply with the laws of the land’.
“Twitter needs to stop beating around the bush and comply with laws of the land. Law making and policy formulations is sole prerogative of the sovereign and Twitter is just a social media platform and it has no locus in dictating what should India’s legal policy framework should be,” the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology stated in an announcement.
“Twitter’s statement is an attempt to dictate its terms to the world’s largest democracy. Through its actions and deliberate defiance, Twitter seeks to undermine India’s legal system,” the ministry went on to add in the searing assertion.
The ministry stated that the authorities assures that representatives of social media firms together with Twitter are and can all the time stay protected in India and there’s no risk to their private security and safety. “Govt condemns Twitter’s statement as baseless, false and an attempt to defame India to hide their follies,” it added.
Delhi Police slams ‘mendacious’ assertion by Twitter
Earlier in the day, the Delhi Police stated the statements by Twitter on the ongoing enquiry in the ‘toolkit’ case was mendacious and designed to impede the lawful enquiry.
The strongly-worded assertion by the Delhi Police got here after Twitter on Thursday referred to as the go to by Delhi Police to its places of work a kind of “intimidation” and stated it was involved about its staff and the potential risk to freedom of expression.
An official assertion issued by Delhi Police PRO Chinmoy Biswal stated, “Prima facie, these statements are not only mendacious but designed to impede a lawful inquiry by a private enterprise. Twitter Inc. has taken upon itself, in the garb of terms of service, to adjudicate the truth or otherwise of documents in public space.”
(With inputs from businesses)
