On June 15, the Ghaziabad police had booked Twitter Inc, Twitter Communications India, news website The Wire, journalists Mohammed Zubair and Rana Ayyub, besides Congress leaders Salman Nizami, Maskoor Usmani, Shama Mohamed and writer Saba Naqvi.The police had rejected Twitter India officials request to carry out questioning via video conferencing.According to the police, the accused were unhappy with the amulets sold to them by Saifi, a resident of Bulandshahr district, and ruled out any communal angle in the matter. The Ghaziabad police had issued a statement with facts of the incident, yet the accused did not remove the video from their Twitter handles.Saifi purportedly claimed he was attacked by some young men and forced to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’. But, the police said, Saifi had not made any such allegations in his FIR lodged on June 7.
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