The concerned tweets were floated across the social media with the motive of hampering peace and harmony amongst the religious groups, it alleges, targeting Twitter for its failure to remove these false tweets. Acharya incidentally has also filed a peition in Delhi High Court seeking directions to Twitter to comply with new IT rules in the country governing intermediaries. Last month, the high court had made it clear that Twitter has to comply with the new information technology rules for digital media unless these have been stayed. On the plea, the court had issued notice to the Centre and Twitter seeking their stand on compliance of the rules by the social media platform. The court is likely to examine the issue in July. While Twitter claimed before the court that it had complied before the court that it had complied with the rules and appointed a resident grievance officer, the central government had disputed the claim. The plea said while the new IT rules had taken effect from February 25, the Centre had given three months to every social medai intermediary, including Twitter, to comply. It contended that the three-month period got over on May 25, but no resident grievance officer had been appointed by Twitter to deal with complaints regarding tweets on its platform. As far as my knowledge is concerned. Twitter has not complied with IT Rules 2021 in true letter and spirit. It has appointed as independent lawyer, not its employee, as the resident grievance officer. He added Rule 7 of the IT rules says that there will be no immunity under Section 79 if intermediary does not comply with the rules or guidelines. Therefore for the time being this FIR seems to be maintainable, which is registered by Ghaziabad Police, even if Twitter claims to have appointed an officer.
