Anti-terror unit takes over fake 'Covid Toolkit' case

The scuffle over a social media toolkit to allegedly defame the government has intensified on Wednesday, as the Anti-terror unit of Delhi Police has taken over of the matter.

New Delhi:The scuffle over a social media toolkit to allegedly defame the government has intensified on Wednesday, as the Anti-terror unit of Delhi Police has taken over the matter.

According to the reports, the investigation team lead by DCP Pramod Kushwaha has earlier investigated the Delhi violence case and JNU sedition case.

Earlier, a special notice has been issued to Twitter, by the terror unit. Along with that two Congress leaders, who filed a complaint against BJP leaders, have been served notice by the Delhi Police's Special Cell in connection with the alleged toolkit case.

On Monday, in a statement, Delhi Police said, "Delhi police team went to the Twitter office to serve a notice to Twitter, as a part of a routine process. This was necessitated as we wanted to ascertain who is the right person to serve a notice, as replies by Twitter India MD have been very ambiguous."

Delhi Police has launched a preliminary inquiry into the alleged Congress toolkit and had served notice to Manish Maheshwari on May 21. On Monday, Delhi Police had said, "We are inquiring into a complaint in which clarification is sought from Twitter regarding the classification of a tweet by (BJP spokesperson) Sambit Patra as 'manipulative'."

Read: Cong leaders get notice from Delhi Police in alleged toolkit case

The statement said that "it appears that Twitter has some information which is not known to us based on which it has classified it as such".

Twitter had described the tweet of BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra as "manipulated media" last week. Patra had shared the alleged toolkit of the Congress, accusing it of trying to defame the image of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The alleged toolkit sparked a row last week as Congress approached Delhi Police to register an FIR against Patra, BJP national President J.P. Nadda, party leader B.L. Santhosh, Union Minister Smriti Irani, and others for forgery.

Read: Delhi Police sent notice to Twitter over toolkit as 'manipulated media' matter

The Chhattisgarh Police also registered a case on the complaint of NSUI over the alleged toolkit and recorded the statement of former Chief Minister Raman Singh and also served notice to Patra.

Read: Congress files complaint against JP Nadda, Sambit Patra for propagating "fake toolkit"