The Delhi Police today issued a Press statement condemning the comments made in public by the social media platform Twitter Inc. in relation to an ongoing police inquiry into the Toolkit case.
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The Delhi Police has termed the statements by Twitter as “mendacious” and remarked that the company is purporting to be both an investigating authority as well as an adjudicating judicial authority. It has no legal sanction to be either. The only legal entity, so empowered by the duly laid down law, to investigate is the Police and to adjudicate is the Courts.
The police statement read that the entire conduct by Twitter Inc, including its Indian entity, in the last few days has been obfuscatory, diversionary and tendentious.” It alleged that Twitter refuses to cooperate with the law enforcement and reveal to the legal authority the information it has.
“Twitter’s Inc’s latest statements are devised to seek dubious sympathy when they themselves not only refuse to comply with the law of the land but also claim to be possession of material evidence but refuse to share it with legal authority duly recognizer. ”
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Delhi Police is conducting a preliminary inquiry and the matter is under investigation. Twitter Inc., while placing the cart before the horse, went ahead and declared that the toolkit was ‘Manipulated Media’.
This clearly demonstrates that Twitter Inc. was acquainted with the facts of the case and it had material information which was germane to the inquiry by a duly recognized law enforcement agency, said the police statement.
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