'It's going to be hard,' tweets Twitter India MD as firm faces scrutiny

After being snubbed by the Delhi Police Twitter India Managing Director Manish Maheshwari on Friday tweeted a slogan poster apparently admitting that there is a tough path ahead but things will be better soonIn a lengthy statement the Delhi Police had said Maheshwari took a path of evasiveness instead of cooperationMaheswaris tweet showed a slogan poster that read Its going to be hard but hard does not mean impossible sic saying that Thats the tweetThe Delhi Police statement had said Twitter Indias subsidiary TCIPLs Managing Director chose to adopt a path of evasiveness instead of cooperationDelhi Police said that initially TCIPLs Managing Director had stated in his response that he was merely a sales head and had no role whatsoever in any operations relating to content and thereby refused to join the inquiryIt is to be noted that TCIPLs stance that its Managing Director is a mere sales head runs contrary to his very own previous press interviews wherein he elaborately discussed Twitters plans to devise methods to identify abusive or manipulative content The above interview makes it clear that Twitter Indias convoluted stance is similar to a deer caught in the headlights the police claimedAlso Read Google FB WhatsApp share details with IT Min Twitter still not following new digital norms Govt sourcesFourth and last the contrived fear mongering by Twitter is unfounded and misplaced The Managing Director of TCIPL was merely served a notice not as an accused but to participate in the inquiry as Twitter claims to have been acquainted with certain facts the police saidThe Delhi Police had served a notice to Maheshwari on May 21 asking him to appear before the police with all the documents in the alleged Congress toolkit caseOn Monday Delhi Police visited Twitter Indias local offices in south Delhis Lado Sarai and Gurugram to serve a notice after the social media platform had marked one of the tweets of BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra as manipulated mediaPatra had shared the alleged toolkit of the Congress over Covid19 accusing it of defaming the Prime Minister and the governmentThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever