Police To Question Twitter India Chief Today Over Ghaziabad Assault Case: Sources

Last week, Manish Maheshwari, Managing Director of Twitter in India, was asked to report to a police station at Loni Border near Delhi and record his statement within seven days

Twitter's India head - Manish Maheshwari - is expected to reach the police station at Loni, which is on the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border, by 11.30 am sources said Thursday morning. He will be questioned in connection with tweets about the assault of a Muslim man in UP's Ghaziabad. Mr Maheshwari on Monday said he would be available for questioning via a video call, but was instead summoned for physical questioning. An FIR was filed last week against Twitter India, several journalists and Congress leaders after an elderly man - Abdul Samad - alleged he was thrashed by some others and forced to chant "Jai Sri Ram" and "Vande Mataram". Those named - who include journalists Rana Ayyub and Saba Naqvi, and Congress leaders Salman Nizami, Shama Mohamed and Maskoor Usmani - were accused of posting "misleading" tweets and "provoking communal sentiments".