The Delhi Police’s Special Cell on Monday sent a notice to Twitter India in connection with the probe into a complaint about an alleged ‘COVID toolkit’, asking it to share information based on which it had classified a related tweet by BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra as “manipulated media”, officials said.
Two police teams also descended on the microblogging site’s offices in Lado Sarai in Delhi and in Gurgaon this evening.
Reacting to the development, Congress’s chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said on Twitter, “Cowardly raid on @Twitter unleashed by Delhi Police exposes lameduck attempts to hide the fraudulent toolkit by BJP leaders.”
Such attempts to “murder” freedom of speech lay bare the BJP’s guilt, he said and tagged his video statement on the issue.
In the video statement, Surjewala alleged that the “subjugation of free speech, the attempts to stifle every voice that is a dissenting voice against this government and the state-sponsored fraudulent means to propagate and to instill fear continue unabated in Modi government”.
He alleged that the BJP forged documents to produce a “fake toolkit”
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