Ghaziabad assault: FIR names Twitter amid conflicting narratives of attack

Uttar Pradesh Police booked microblogging platform Twitter, news portal The Wire.in, several journalists and Congress leaders for “promoting enmity between religions” by posting and promoting an allegedly manipulated video of an elderly Muslim man’s assault amid conflicting narratives of the attack.

Police officers familiar with the matter said Twitter has been named in the first information report filed in Loni, Ghaziabad, because it didn’t prevent the video from going viral and even helped in its promotion and circulation. The video purportedly showed the elderly man, later identified as Sufi Abdul Samad, being beaten up and his attackers cutting off his beard.