The Madhya Pradesh police on Thursday wrote to Twitter, asking it to take down a tweet posted by filmmaker Leena Manimekalai within 36 hours or face legal action.
Since the initial tweet posted by Canada-based Ms. Manimekalai that published a poster of her documentary film ‘Kaali’, depicting the Hindu Goddess as smoking and holding an LGBTQ flag, a huge controversy erupted and three FIRs have been filed in Madhya Pradesh in connection to it. Of these, one was registered in Bhopal against Trinamool Congress MP Mohua Moitra over her remark about Goddess Kali while the other two have been registered against Ms. Manimekalai herself, in Bhopal and Ratlam.
The notice, addressed to the social media platform’s legal department in San Francisco, was sent by Madhya Pradesh’s Cyber Intelligence and Cyber Crime Police, hours after State home minister Narottam Mishra said that he would write to Twitter to check tweets aimed at hurting the religious sentiments of the people.
