- Sunday, February 23, 2025
By: Shubham Ghosh
Shubham Ghosh
THE Ghaziabad Police has notified Twitter India Managing Director Manish Maheshwari in connection to the case involving assault on an elderly Muslim man, officials said on Friday (18).
Maheshwari was asked to appear at the Loni Border Police Station in Ghaziabad in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh within seven days to get his statement recorded in the case, a police source said. A FIR was also lodged against Twitter pertaining to the case.
On Tuesday (15), the Ghaziabad Police booked the social media giant besides an Indian news outlet, some journalists and leaders of the Opposition party Congress over circulation of a video in which the elderly man Abdul Shamad Saifi says he was thrashed and asked to chant “Jai Shri Ram”.
The police countered saying nothing of that sort happened and the incident rather happened because the accused persons were not happy with the ‘taweez’ (amulets) that Saifi sold to them promising good luck.
The FIR named Twitter Inc., Twitter Communications India, news website The Wire, journalists Rana Ayyub and Mohammed Zubair, Congress leaders Maskoor Usmai, Salman Nizami and others.
The video triggered a massive outrage but the district police said that Saifi had not made allegations in his FIR lodged on June 7 that he was forced to chant “Jai Shri Ram”.
The Ghaziabad Police has so far arrested nine people in connection to the case.
Iraz Raza, SP Rural, Ghaziabad, said almost all the main accused related to the case have been arrested and whoever remaining will also be caught soon. He said action is being taken against those who gave the incident a communal angle.
