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The Uttar Pradesh (UP) Police has booked Twitter India’s chief Manish Maheshwari after Twitter showed the wrong map of India on its website.
Along with Maheshwari, one Chitra Singh has been booked under Section 505(2) of the Indian Penal Code and Section 74 of the IT (Amendment) Act, 2008.
The complaint was lodged after Twitter showed an incorrect map of India which appeared on the career section of the website earlier last weekend. On the map, one could clearly see that Twitter showed Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh, as a separate country.
After this was pointed out, Twitter got rid of the incorrect map of India from its website late Monday (28 June) night. This is not the first time Twitter has altered the map of India and only last week it suspended the account of Union Minister Ravishankar Prasad.
Twitter is already in trouble with the law in UP as the Police have already issued a summons against Maheshwari in connection with a misleading video of an elderly Muslim man being assaulted in the Loni area of Ghaziabad district.
The microblogging site was also issued a second notice by Ghaziabad Police to seek “account details” of the suspects accused by the Police of posting and promoting the video.
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