The managing director of Twitter in India, Manish Maheshwari , was questioned by Delhi Police last month in the case involving an alleged “Congress toolkit”, sources said on Thursday. A team of the Delhi Police Special Cell was in bangalore on May 31 to question Maheshwari, news agency ANI reported.
The development came a week after Delhi police teams went to twitter’s offices in Delhi and Gurugam to follow up on two notices over BJP leader Sambit Patra’s tweet on an alleged “Congress toolkit” being marked as “manipulated media”.
After not being able to appoint statutory officers on time, Twitter has lost the coveted “safe harbour” immunity in India.
With this, Twitter becomes the only American platform to have lost the protective shield- granted under Section 79 of the IT Act, even though others such as YouTube, Facebook, Whatsapp remain protected.
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