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Delhi Police Cyber Cell has registered an FIR below the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and Information Technology (IT) Act in opposition to Twitter after receiving a grievance from the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR), citing availability of hyperlinks and materials pertaining to baby exploitation.
“Acting on a complaint received from the NCPCR regarding availability of child sexual abuse and child pornographic material on Twitter in the form of various accounts and links, a Case FIR under relevant sections of IPC, IT Act and POCSO Act has been registered by Cyber Crime Unit, and investigation has been taken up,” Delhi Police Spokesperson Chinmoy Biswal stated, including that the grievance was made in opposition to Twitter Inc and Twitter Communication India Private Ltd.
The grievance is the newest addition to a sequence of controversies Twitter India is embroiled in. On Monday, senior authorities officers stated that Twitter in India is now not an “intermediary” and, due to this fact, can’t be offered the authorized safety that’s accorded to Internet intermediaries below Section 79 of the IT Act.
The resolution comes after the tech big failed to stick to norms of the brand new IT guidelines, requiring appointment of executives as Resident Grievance Officer, Nodal Officer and Chief Compliance Officer. While Twitter had introduced the appointment of Dhar.mendra Chatur as interim resident grievance officer, he resigned from the corporate on Sunday.
Despite a letter dated June 6  to the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, assuring that Twitter was working to make everlasting appointments to those posts, the ministry officers have stated that as of Monday, Twitter had not shared these particulars.
In May, the Delhi Police Special Cell had reached Twitter India’s places of work to serve them a discover over the ‘manipulated media’ tag on Bharatiya Janata Party spokesperson Sambit Patra’s tweet concerning the controversial ‘Congress toolkit.’
Earlier, Twitter and the Centre had locked heads over almost 100 accounts that the Government of India had requested the micro-blogging website to dam over tweets on the farmers’ protest. However, Twitter had unblocked the accounts, after conveying to the Centre “that the accounts and Tweets in question constitute free speech and are newsworthy.”
With inputs from Mahender Singh Manral