UP police sends second notice to Twitter India MD, asks to appear on June 24

Ghaziabad, June 22: After getting the reply from Twitter MD, now Ghaziabad police have slapped another notice to Twitter India's managing director Maneesh Maheshwari and has asked to join its investigation on June 24 in the Loni case. The police have sent notice to the Maheshwari under section 41 A of the Criminal Procedure Code.

 

 

In the second notice, SSP Pathak has slammed Twitter and told MD that the “e-Mail sent by you shows that you are escaping the responsibility of cooperation with the police in the investigation”.

 

“Clarification given by you is inappropriate. Being the MD of Twitter in India, you are the representative of the company. Therefore, you are bound by the Indian law to cooperate in the investigation,” SSP Pathak said in the second notice.

 

"In the public interest and for the sake of the security of the state, you are authorised and have the power to make the decision that which tweet is supposed to be publicised and which should be deleted," Pathak told Maheshwari, reminding him of his editorial responsibility.

 

 

"The message concerned in which your cooperation is required has enhanced tension in the state and the country and has hampered the communal harmony," said Pathak.

 

"The Ghaziabad police had tweeted (on June 14) through its official Twitter handle that the news broadcasted by you is fake. It was under your jurisdiction and you could have stopped spreading the false information but you failed in it," Pathak said in the notice.

 

 

Ghaziabad Senior Superintendent of Police Amit Pathak has also warned Maheshwari that his failure may result in his prosecution for hindering the probe. He said, "Your absence would be treated as a hindrance to the investigation."

"This type of act would be treated as an attempt of creating an obstruction in the investigation which leads the police to initiate further legal action," he added.

 

The Ghaziabad police sent the notice soon after Maheshwari responded to the first notice and offered to join the investigation through video conference, a senior police officer said. Maheshwari had also conveyed to them that the information sought by the Ghaziabad police did not pertain to Twitter India but Twitter Inc, its global head office.

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