Top Twitter executives in India face arrest for not fully complying with govt orders
Centre makes its stand clear that lawfully passed orders are binding on any business entity. IT secretary expresses his deep disappointment to Twitter leadership about how it has "unwillingly, grudgingly and with great delay" complied with substantial parts of order
- Feb 11, 2021,
- Updated Feb 12, 2021 2:05 PM IST
As the row over Twitter's non-compliance of the government's notice intensifies, Twitter executives face the possibility of arrest. Top executives of Twitter are now facing arrest under Section 69A of the IT Act if the Centre's demand of banning some handles spreading inflammatory "farmer genocide" hashtags and those supporting pro-Pakistan and pro-Khalistan agendas, are not fulfilled. The Centre has already made it clear that its demand on such accounts is "non-negotiable".
As the Centre's patience on Twitter non-compliance of its orders wears out, the micro-blogging site might knock the court's door in its defence of "right of free expression". After releasing a report on the action taken on the government's orders , Twitter executives Monique Meche and Jim Baker met Union IT secretary Ajay Prakash Sawhney later in the evening.
Sawhney made it clear that lawfully passed orders are binding on any business entity. "They must be obeyed immediately. If they are executed days later, it becomes meaningless," said a government statement after the meeting.
As the row over Twitter's non-compliance of the government's notice intensifies, Twitter executives face the possibility of arrest. Top executives of Twitter are now facing arrest under Section 69A of the IT Act if the Centre's demand of banning some handles spreading inflammatory "farmer genocide" hashtags and those supporting pro-Pakistan and pro-Khalistan agendas, are not fulfilled. The Centre has already made it clear that its demand on such accounts is "non-negotiable".
As the Centre's patience on Twitter non-compliance of its orders wears out, the micro-blogging site might knock the court's door in its defence of "right of free expression". After releasing a report on the action taken on the government's orders , Twitter executives Monique Meche and Jim Baker met Union IT secretary Ajay Prakash Sawhney later in the evening.
Sawhney made it clear that lawfully passed orders are binding on any business entity. "They must be obeyed immediately. If they are executed days later, it becomes meaningless," said a government statement after the meeting.