Twitter on Wednesday told the Delhi high court that it has temporarily locked the account of Congress member Rahul Gandhi and removed a post where he shared the photograph of the parents of a nine-year-old Dalit girl who was allegedly raped and murdered in southwest Delhi.
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The microblogging site said that the tweet has been removed as it was found to be in violation of the platform’s policy. “The account has been locked and the tweet is not available,” advocate Sajan Poovayya said, in response to a petition seeking registration of FIR against Gandhi for allegedly revealing the victim’s identity by posting a photograph with her parents on Twitter.
A bench of chief justice DN Patel and justice Jyoti Singh expressed satisfaction with the “prompt” action taken by Twitter prior to the court’s intervention. It also refused to issue notice at this stage on plea filed by one Makarand Suresh Mhadlekar and asked the parties to “keep 1-2 pages of submissions ready” when it takes up the matter on September 27.
The HC took a dim view of the insistence of the petitioner’s counsel to demand Twitter file an affidavit as he disputed the platform’s stand. “If this is the attitude, we are not issuing notice,” it said.
Source: Times of India
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