- Wednesday, December 25, 2024
By: Shubham Ghosh
THE Karnataka High Court on Thursday (24) gave interim relief to Twitter India Managing Director Manish Maheshwari against a notice in connection with a recent assault on an elderly Muslim man. The court asked the Ghaziabad Police not to take any coercive steps against Maheshwari and said that if the cops wanted to examine the Twitter India chief, they could do so virtually.
During the hearing, Maheshwari’s counsel told the court that he is just an employee of the company and had nothing to do with the offence. His counsel also told the court that he lives in Bangalore in southern India and said later that both the supreme court and high court have agreed that the statement could be given through video conferencing even though Ghaziabad Police wanted him to be present in person.
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Maheshwari was expected to appear before Ghaziabad cops
The Twitter India chief was expected to physically appear before the Ghaziabad Police on Thursday in connection with the case. The man was issued a notice by the police earlier this week and asked to report at its Loni Border Police Station at 10.30 am on Thursday to record his statement in the case. He was later expected to report by noon.
The police had on June 15 booked Twitter Inc., Twitter Communications India, a news website, a few journalists and members of the Indian National Congress party on charges of circulating a video in which the elderly man Abdul Shamad Saifi claimed that he was allegedly thrashed by some youngsters and forced to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’ earlier in June.
According to the police, the video was shared with the intention of stoking communal unrest.
Maheshwari consequently moved the Karnataka High Court seeking relief.
