Twitter India MD Manish Maheshwari named in FIR over distorted India map

Tuesday, 29 June 2021Newsdesk

A day after Twitter India got embroiled in a fresh controversy over carrying a distorted map of India on its careers page, the police in Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr district lodged an FIR against Twitter India MD Manish Maheshwari and another company official on Tuesday. The case was registered at the Khurja Nagar police station based on a complaint by a Bajrang Dal office-bearer on Monday evening.

New Delhi, 29 June 2021

As per news report of The Indian Express,The controversy erupted after it was discovered that a map of the world in the ‘Tweep Life’ section under ‘Careers’ on the platform’s website showed the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh as lying outside the borders of India. The distorted map had pins for three offices of Twitter in India, in Bengaluru, Mumbai, and New Delhi. Twitter later removed the map after backlash from netizens. “The world map does not show Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir as parts of India. This is not a coincidence. This act has hurt the sentiments of Indians, including me,” Bajrang Dal’s western UP convenor Praveen Bhati said in the complaint, according to news agency PTI.

Source -The Indian Express