New Delhi: Ghaziabad Police on Tuesday filed FIR against nine entities, including Twitter India in connection with the Loni incident, in which a man was thrashed and his beard was chopped off.
In the FIR, the Police said, “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, Salman Nizami — without checking the fact, started giving communal colour to the incident on Twitter and suddenly they started spreading messages to disrupt the peace and bring differences between the religious communities.”
Watch What Police said:
Ghaziabad: ट्विटर पर FIR के मामले को लेकर पुलिस एसएसपी अमित पाठक का बयान, कहा- 'सोशल मीडिया पर ऐसे कंटेंट डाले गए जिससे कि लोगों की भडकाव की भावना पैदा हुई। कानूनी रूप से ट्विटर के खिलाफ कार्यवाही की जायेगी' @ghaziabadpolice @TwitterIndia @UPGovt pic.twitter.com/eybVcizc1G
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“The victim Abdul Samad Sufi and the accused have known each other for a long time. The victim sold a tabeez (amulet) to the key accused with the promise that it will bring him prosperity but he [Parvesh] complained that it had an adverse effect on his family. When the tabeez did not work, the accused got angry and had beaten the victim,” the FIR said.
Recently, a video went viral on social media where six people could be seen trashing an elderly man. The assailants also chopped off the victims’ beard and it was reported that the victim was made to chant slogans like “Jai Shree Ram” and “Vande Mataram”.
