Mumbai Police have issued notices to at least 24 X account holders for sharing a documentary directed by Sabir Bhatia that allegedly contains false and disparaging claims about industrialist Gautam Adani and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The documentary in question gained public attention after the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting issued takedown directives to platforms like YouTube and Meta following court orders. Through the notice, Mumbai Police requested X to urgently review the objectionable tweets posted through multiple handles and take appropriate action to remove or disable access to the content in accordance with applicable law and X’s policies. others have posted the notice, calling it an injustice While a few X account holders have deleted the video.
Publication and dissemination of objectionable, false, misleading, and disparaging statements violated X’s rules and were punishable under Sections 352 (intentional insult with intent to provoke a breach of the public peace) and 356 (defamation) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), it added.
The notice said the tweets contained allegedly false, misleading, and disparaging statements and allegations concerning the said company, which were being publicly circulated through different X handles without any apparent factual or lawful basis, thereby causing serious and continuing harm to the company’s reputation, goodwill, and public image.
