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17 Jun

Police complaint filed against actor Swara Bhaskar over Ghaziabad assault video

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Delhi Police have lodged complaint against multiple personalities over the Ghaziabad assault video. The names include actor Swara Bhaskar, Arfa Khanum Sherwani, Asif Khan of Twitter India and Manish Maheshwari, who is the Twitter India head. The complaint was lodged by advocate Amit Acharya at Delhi's Tilak Marg police station. Delhi Police has meanwhile launched a probe but an FIR is yet to be lodged over the fresh complaint. Earlier, an FIR had named Twitter Inc, Twitter Communications India and news website The Wire, journalists Mohammed Zubair and Rana Ayyub, Congress leaders Shama Mohamed, Salman Nizami, Maskoor Usmani and writer…

16 Jun

Communal tensions in Uttar Pradesh: Police register case against Twitter

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Indian police have registered a case against Twitter and prominent journalists for allegedly trying to spark communal tensions. Police say the journalists falsely insinuated that a Muslim man was beaten by Hindu men while sharing a video of the alleged incident on Twitter. Officials added that the man was beaten up by both Hindu and Muslim men due to a dispute. Most journalists have deleted the tweets but Twitter is yet to comment. What is alleged to have happened? The video, which went viral around 7 June, shows around five men beating up an elderly Muslim man in Ghaziabad district…