Karnataka HC grants interim relief to Twitter chief

Karnataka High Court has granted an interim relief to Twitter MD Manish Maheshwari and directed Ghaziabad Police not to take any coercive steps against him. 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 on Thursday to get his statement recorded in the case.

Bengaluru: Karnataka High Court has granted an interim relief to Twitter MD Manish Maheshwari and directed Ghaziabad Police not to take any coercive steps against him. The court said that if Ghaziabad Police wants to question Twitter MD then it can do so via virtual mode. The High Court heard Twitter Managing Director Manish Maheshwari's petition against the notice issued by Ghaziabad, after the Uttar Pradesh Police had issued him notice under Sec 41A CrPC, in connection with the case where a man was thrashed & his beard chopped off in Loni.

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, officials 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 the 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.

(Agency Inputs)