Complaint against Swara Bhaskar, Twitter India head over Ghaziabad assault video

A police complaint has been lodged against actor Swara Bhaskar, Arfa Khanum Sherwani, Asif Khan of Twitter India and Manish Maheshwari, who is the Twitter India head over the Ghaziabad assault video.

The complaint was lodged at Delhi's Tilak Marg police station by advocate Amit Acharya. An FIR is yet to be lodged over the fresh complaint. Delhi Police has meanwhile launched a probe.

Earlier, an FIR had named Twitter Inc, Twitter Communications India and news website The Wire, journalists Mohammed Zubair and Rana Ayyub, Congress leaders Shama Mohamed, Salman Nizami, Maskoor Usmani and writer Saba Naqvi in the same case.

Twitter and these prominent users have been booked for circulating a video in which an elderly Muslim man says he was thrashed and asked to chant "Jai Shri Ram".

The FIR said that these people did not verify the truth of the matter and shared it online with a communal angle with an intention to disrupt public peace and create a divide between religious groups.

The Press Club of India (PCI) has demanded that the FIR naming the journalists should be quashed because it shows "vendetta" by the Ghaziabad police to create a "sense of terror" in the media and society at large.