The repression by the Tripura police invoked the strict “Illegal Activities (Prevention) Act” and parts of the “Indian Criminal Law”, targeting critics of the BJP and its leaders, and even calling for action and investigation Suspected of attacking minority lawyer communities. And now, two weeks after the police asked Twitter to block 68 usernames and provide user details, 24 personal data have been deleted and 57 tweets are no longer available, including 23 “detained in India due to legal requirements.”
Most of the profiles are new-15 joined Twitter in 2020-2021, 19 in 2015-2019, and 7 in 2010-2014. Most handles have low coverage-8 followers have less than 10, 17 have less than 100, and 21 have less than 1,000 followers. There are 12 with more than 10,000 followers. Many of them criticized the People’s Party, its leaders and its ideology. A review of the handle revealed that 9 users claimed to be journalists, 7 were political workers, 5 were students, 2 were activists, and 7 belonged to religious organizations. Several configuration files do not have any personal description.
Processors include those who claim to be members of Congress, Youth Congress, Trinamool Congress, AIMIM, and Bhartiya Insan Party (BIP). In addition, four lawyers came to Tripura Democracy as a fact-finding team under the auspices of lawyers and were also booked on November 3, because they claimed that people from the minority community had become members of Tripura North. Panisagar’s goal.
They called on the police to take action and conduct judicial investigations. The notice has been served to four lawyers—Ehtesham Hashmi, Supreme Court lawyer, Amit Srivastav, democratic lawyer coordinator, NCHRO country secretary Ansar Indori, and PUCL member Mukesh Kumar—the police cited the IPC section and the UAPA’s response to “promoting inter-religious groups” Hostility” and “provoking people from different religious groups to undermine the peace”.
Also on November 3, the police issued a notice to Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, asking them to block the accounts and pages of 102 users who allegedly posted content, “it is possible that there is a possibility that people from different religious communities in Tripura may be irritated. Tensions in the community have arisen, which may lead to riots in the community.”
The police stated that the West Agartala Police Department has registered a case on charges of forgery, conspiracy and UAPA. The police cited the “one-to-one association” between the lawyer’s statement and the “public propaganda” on social media, registering these social media users with the same charges in the same case.
News Source : The Indian Express
