Loni assault case: Ghaziabad Police sends legal notice to Twitter India, others

The Ghaziabad Police on Thursday sent legal notices to Twitter India and others accused of sharing the viral video of an elderly man in Loni being assaulted with the intent of "provoking communal unrest".

In the latest update in the Loni assault case, the Ghaziabad Police on Thursday sent legal notices to Twitter India and others accused of sharing the viral video of the elderly man being assaulted in Loni, Ghaziabad with the alleged intent of "provoking communal unrest". The notices were sent via mail. Earlier, on Tuesday night, the Uttar Pradesh government had filed an FIR at Loni Border police station against Twitter, journalists and two Congress leaders for sharing the video. In the FIR, the Ghaziabad Police claimed, "There is no communal angle to the incident in Loni where a man was thrashed and his beard was chopped off. The following entities -- The Wire, Rana Ayyub, Mohammad Zubair, Dr Shama Mohammed, Saba Naqvi, Maskoor Usmani, Slaman Nizami -- without checking the fact, started giving communal colour to the incident on Twitter."