Twitter India MD Manish Maheshwari to appear before Ghaziabad Police today

Twitter India’s Managing Director Manish Maheshwari is expected to appear in person before Ghaziabad Police today, in connection with an investigation into the assault of an elderly Muslim man in Loni.

Maheshwari, who lives in Bengaluru, was issued a notice by the Ghaziabad Police on June 21 and asked to report at its Loni Border police station at 10:30 am on Thursday to get his statement recorded in the case, officials said. “He didn’t reach the police station at the given time and is expected to reach here by noon,” Circle Officer (Loni), Atul Kumar Sonkar said.

The Ghaziabad Police had on June 15 booked Twitter Inc., Twitter Communications India, news website The Wire, journalists Mohammed Zubair and Rana Ayyub, besides Congress leaders Salman Nizami, Maskoor Usmani, Shama Mohamed and writer Saba Naqvi, in the Loni assault case. They were booked over the circulation of a video in which the elderly man, Abdul Shamad Saifi, claims he was allegedly thrashed by some young men who also asked him to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’ on June 5.

The police claim the video was shared to cause communal unrest.