Twitter India head Manish Maheshwari booked for showing wrong map of India

Twitter India country head Manish Maheshwari has been booked under Section 505 (2) of IPC and Section 74 of IT (Amendment) Act 2008 for showing the wrong map of India on its website, on complaint of a Bajrang Dal leader in Bulandshahr.

The issue revolves around a controversial map of India in the careers section of Twitter, which showed Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh as separate countries.

This led to angry reactions on Twitter, and the microblogging platform removed the map on Monday night.

Maheshwari filed a caveat in the Supreme Court, dated June 26, asking that he be heard before any orders are passed in any appeal filed by the Ghaziabad police against the relief granted by Karnataka High Court.