Uttar Pradesh police have registered an FIR against Twitter, several journalists and Congress leaders over a video showing a Muslim from Ghaziabad alleging that he was assaulted and his beard was cut off.
The police action came on a day the Narendra Modi government at the Centre persisted with its sabre-rattling strategy in an effort to cow Twitter into submission on the new information technology intermediary guidelines.
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If the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh pursues the FIR with vigour, it is expected to become a test case, especially since there is no official word yet that the micro-blogging platform has lost its protective cover under the revised IT rules from pesky lawsuits.
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