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UP Riot: Complaint filed against Twitter, Togadia, Swamy September 9, 2013 in Home Slider<http://muslimmirror.com/eng/category/home-slider/> , Indian Muslim <http://muslimmirror.com/eng/category/indian-muslim/> | *By Muslim Mirror Correspondent,* [image: Twitter]<http://muslimmirror.com/eng/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Twitter.jpg>New Delhi, September 9: A formal complaint has been registered here with National Human Rights Commission and Delhi Police against social networking site Twitter and some Hindu right wing leaders including Praveen Togadia and Subramanian Swamy for some ‘offensive’ posts ‘endangering’ law and order in Uttar Pradesh. Young law graduate and activist Shehzad Poonawalla on Monday filed the written complaint with the NHRC and Delhi Police citing a long list of such offensive tweets. “Since the 8th of September 2013 (and perhaps earlier), the following hashtags i.e. #UPriots , #Muzaffarnagar and the like, have been continuously trending on the popular social networking website Twitter…Several of the tweets appearing under the said trends are not only distasteful and offensive but clearly are violative of several provisions of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 and the IT Act, 2000. Also given the sensitive situation prevailing in Uttar Pradesh on the back of communal clashes in Muzaffarnagar which has already lead to the death of over 26 people, these tweets pose a real and imminent threat to the prevailing law and order situation in the state of Uttar Pradesh and across India. Given that every Indian has a basic human right to live in peace and security, these tweets are a serious a violation of the said right. Not only those who post these tweets but also Twitter Inc. is liable for the above violation as it has made no effort whatsoever to delete the illegal, offensive tweets nor has it blocked the accounts of those users making such tweets,” Poonawalla wrote in the complaint to NHRC and Delhi Police and listed several such tweets. The complainant says all the offensive tweets attract Section 66A (a) and (b) i.e. Punishment for sending offensive messages through communication service, etc, are in flagrant violation of section 295(A) of IPC 1860 as they deliberately, intentionally and maliciously outraged the religious feelings of Muslims by written words- Cognizable and Non-Bailable. Moreover, the tweets violate Section 153A (a) as they promote enmity between different groups on grounds of religion and 153B as they make imputations, assertions prejudicial to national-integration- Cognizable and non-Bailable. Poonawalla in his complaint listed some tweeters including @Brain_hunt, @Swamy39,@Chotebhai1, @AMIT JAINDB, @InternetHindus, @Hiindus, @S_hindurashtra, @GuptaChiranjeev, @HazirJawab, @KaliaUstad, @paidmediahatesh, @biswajeetdash and said their identities can be established by means of tracking their respective I.P addresses and as they have violated the provisions of IPC, 1860 and IT Act, 2000 they must be booked for the commission of the above offences. He urged the NHRC to direct the registration of an FIR in the instant case against Twitter, Inc and the listed known and unknown persons for violation of various sections of IPC,1860 and ITAct, 2000 and to direct the Department of Telecom to take necessary steps to filter, screen and remove all the illegal content on all social networking platforms that is likely to prejudicially affect the minority community. -- Peace Is Doable -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
