Police summons Twitter's Grievance Officer, four others over assault video

Five people including including Twitter's Grievance Officer Dharmendra Chatur have been summoned by Ghaziabad Police in connection with a probe related to the assault of an elderly man.

Ghaziabad: Ghaziabad Police has again summoned five people including Twitter's Grievance Officer Dharmendra Chatur in connection with a probe related to the assault of an elderly man in the district.

Earlier Twitter India's Managing Director Manish Maheshwari had failed to appear on the scheduled time before the Ghaziabad Police on June 24. Ghaziabad Police on June 21 had issued notice to the Twitter India MD living in Karnataka's Bengaluru and asked to report at its Loni Border police station at 10.30 am on Thursday to get his statement recorded in the case.

On June 15 police had booked Twitter Inc, Twitter Communications India, news website The Wire, journalists Mohammed Zubair and Rana Ayyub, besides Congress leaders Salman Nizami, Maskoor Usmani, Shama Mohamed and writer Saba Naqvi in connection with the case.

They were booked over the circulation of a video in which an elderly man claimed he was thrashed by some young men and also asked him to chant 'Jai Shri Ram' on June 5. The police claim the video was shared to cause communal unrest.

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