The top court bench added that India is a democracy and told the petitioner to ignore the toolkit if he doesn't like it. The petitioner later withdrew the plea.
Delhi Police's Special Cell had questioned Twitter MD Manish Maheshwari over flagging of Sambit Patra's 'toolkit' tweet as 'manipulated media' after serving them a notice on 24 May.
Delhi Police's strongly-worded response came after Twitter Thursday called Delhi Police's visit to its offices a form of 'intimidation' and expressed concern over its employees.
In a statement, the IT Ministry termed WhatsApp's last moment challenge to the intermediary guidelines as an unfortunate attempt to prevent norms from coming into effect.
Randeep Surjewala alleged that subject matter of the forged Toolkit document was created by BJP leaders to gain wrongful political advantage by spreading false material against INC.
According to Delhi Police PRO Chinmoy Biswal, it appears that Twitter has some information that is not known to the police, which is relevant to the inquiry.
The FIR was filed on the complaint of an NSUI functionary who alleged that Patra, along with others, had circulated a fake toolkit using the letterhead of the Congress.
Sources said the govt has asked Twitter to not interfere in the investigation process to determine the veracity of the content, which deals with an alleged Congress toolkit.
Congress alleged that the 'gross misuse' of Twitter by the senior functionaries of BJP has led to dissemination of ‘false information and has the potential to cause social unrest’.
On 17 March, the HC had granted a 'last opportunity' to the Centre to file its reply to a petition by Disha Ravi for restraining police from leaking probe material to the media.
The recent resignations of its seniormost judges are among the most pointed institutional protests Pakistan has witnessed since the lawyers’ movement of the late 2000s.
Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.
COMMENTS