Assault case: Twitter India MD fails to appear on time before police

Twitter India's Managing Director Manish Maheshwari failed to arrive at the Loni border police station on the scheduled time today in connection with a probe related to the assault of an elderly Muslim man in Ghaziabad.

Ghaziabad: Twitter India's Managing Director Manish Maheshwari today failed to appear on the scheduled time before the Ghaziabad Police in connection with a probe related to the assault of an elderly Muslim man here recently. Loni Circle Officer Atul Kumar Sonkar informed media that Maheshwari had not arrived at the police station at the given time and was expected to reach by noon.

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, official added. Police had on June 15 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 case.

They were booked over the circulation of a video in which an elderly man, Abdul Shamad Saifi, 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.