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Parliamentary panel grills Twitter over ‘obscene’ tweets by Kunal Kamra targeting SC, CJI

New Delhi: A parliamentary committee questioned Twitter on Thursday over the recent “obscene” tweets by stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra targeting the Supreme Court and the chief justice of India (CJI), and sought reply from the social media giant over the matter within seven days, said the panel’s chairperson Meenakshi Lekhi.

This came close on the heels of Twitter apologising in writing to the same
parliamentary panel for wrongly showing Ladakh in China and promising to correct the error by the month-end.

Twitter India representatives deposed before the Joint Committee of Parliament on Data Protection Bill on Thursday.

“It is shameful that Twitter is allowing its platform for obscene remarks like
the one by stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra against the Supreme Court and the CJI,” Lekhi told reporters here.

“Twitter is allowing its platform to be misused for abusing top constitutional authorities, such as Supreme Court and CJI.”

She said members of the committee across political spectrum, including
Congress MP Vivek Tankha, BSP MP Ritesh Pandey and BJD MP Bhatruhari
Mahtab, grilled Twitter representatives on this issue.

Lekhi also said that explanation of Twitter about banning handles and tweets was found to be inadequate.

Meanwhile, Kamra has refused to retract his controversial tweets against the Supreme Court or apologise for them, saying he believes they “speak for
themselves”.

Earlier, Attorney General K K Venugopal consented to the initiation of
criminal contempt proceedings against him for a series of tweets following the apex court giving interim bail to Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab
Goswami.

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