Twitter moves SC to quash 16 FIRs

Social media platform Twitter on Thursday moved the Supreme Court seeking quashing or consolidation of 16 FIRs lodged against it in 16 states after Canada-based separatist Sikh activist Gurpatwant Singh Panun’s offensive post.

Appearing for Twitter, senior advocate Sajan Poovayya told a bench of Chief Justice S A Bobde and Justices A S Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian that the social media platform had no control over posts made by third parties and that it had suspended Panun’s account after a complaint from the Indian government.