Why Supreme Court lawyer Sanjay Hegde wants to fight Twitter

Supreme Court lawyer Sanjay Hegde, whose account Twitter has suspended, wants the answer to a question: Is the micro-blogging site liable to protect the freedom of speech of its users?

Hegde has appeared for sufferers of the NRC, in a habeas corpus case on Kashmir, mob lynching cases and in the recent Aarey forest case in Mumbai. He has said he is unwilling to remove the retweet that led to the suspension of his handle, @sanjayuvacha, on October 28. The retweet was from 2017, he said. This was the second time Twitter suspended his account in three days.

On October 27, Hegde’s account was suspended for the first time because of an iconic photograph he had put up a year back as his profile photo.