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Two teams of the Delhi Police Special Cell landed up at the offices of Twitter India in Delhi and Gurugram on Monday, 24 May, and carried out raids, ANI reported. This comes a day after police had sent a letter to Twitter India after the platform labelled BJP national spokesperson Sambit Patra's tweet as 'manipulated media'.
BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra's tweet was tagged as 'manipulated media' by Twitter in which he accused Congress for making a 'toolkit' targeting the government over its COVID handling. Many other BJP leaders also posted about this accusing the Congress.
On 18 May, Patra had shared screenshots of the alleged ‘toolkit’, claiming that the Congress had created the document to “corner” Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his handling of the pandemic.
Meanwhile, the Congress lodged a complaint with the Delhi Police against several BJP leaders, and accused them of 'forgery'. The party also wrote a complaint to Twitter, seeking suspension of accounts of those BJP leaders.
The government seemed to be in favour of the leaders of the party in power. Last week, the Government of India objected the use of 'manipulated media' tags on those tweets and asked the social media company to remove them.
According to the Indian Express, the police team went to the offices to serve a notice to the company, as a part of a 'routine process'. "This was necessitated as it was to ascertain who the right person was to serve a notice, as replies by Twitter India MD had been very ambiguous," the police said.
"It appears that Twitter has some information which is not known to us on the basis of which they have classified it (Patra's tweet) as such. This information is relevant to the inquiry," the police said.
The police had on Monday issued a statement that they had received a complaint asking Twitter for a 'clarification' on classifying Patra’s tweet as ‘manipulated media’.
Source: thequint.com, livemint.com, theindianexpress.com
Written by Siddhant Sharma
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