The police in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad district have registered a First Information Report against Twitter , news website The Wire and se...
The police in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad district have registered a First Information Report against Twitter, news website The Wire and seven others, including journalists Rana Ayyub and Mohammed Zubair, in connection with the assault of an elderly Muslim man, The Indian Express reported.
The FIR, which also named writer Saba Naqvi and Congress leaders Salman Nizami, Shama Mohamed and Maskoor Usmani, alleged that the accused did not verify their tweets on the incident and thereby gave a “communal angle” to it.
They have been booked under sections 153 (provocation for rioting), 153A (promoting enmity between different groups), 295A (acts intended to outrage religious feelings), 505 (mischief), 120B (criminal conspiracy) and 34 (common intention) of the Indian Penal Code.
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The FIR registered on Tuesday night mentions that the tweets posted by the accused were shared on a large scale and they hinted at a “criminal conspiracy”, The Indian Express reported.
“The accused and other people tried to create animosity between Hindus and Muslims,” the FIR stated. “The tweets were an attempt to destroy communal harmony...The accused include journalists and political persons who did not make an attempt to establish the truth in the case and...
