A complaint has been lodged in Delhi against actor Swara Bhasker, the Managing Director of Twitter India and two others over "inflammatory tweets" on the assault on a Muslim man in Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad earlier this month. Recently, a video had gone viral on social media where an elderly man was allegedly thrashed and his beard was shaved off by a group. Different versions of the video had surfaced on social media and were circulated. Amid this, Swara had reacted on the matter and now, against her tweets, a lawyer has approached the Delhi Police with a complaint.
As per ANI, "Delhi Police say they've received a complaint against actor Swara Bhaskar, Twitter India MD Manish Maheshwari & others at Police Station Tilak Marg, in connection with an incident in Loni (Ghaziabad) where a man was thrashed & his beard was chopped off. "It is under inquiry," they say." While the complaint has been received against the actress, Twitter India's MD, the report by NDTV states that the police are yet to file an FIR in the matter. As per the report, the lawyer claimed that Swara and journalist Arfa Khanum and a person named Asif Khan, allegedly propagated hate among citizens using their Twitter handle. Reportedly, the complaint against Twitter India MD Manish was put forth as he allegedly did not act to remove the tweets by Swara and others. Earlier, the Ghaziabad Police lodged an FIR against Twitter, Congress leaders, and journalists Mohammed Zubair and Rana Ayyub over tweets in connection with the assault. A local Samajwadi Party leader, Ummed Pahalwan Idrisi, who appeared in a Facebook Live video alongside the elderly man has also been booked.