{"id":332756,"date":"2021-06-29T01:07:46","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T06:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=332756"},"modified":"2021-06-29T01:07:46","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T06:37:46","slug":"twitter-india-md-manish-maheshwari-booked-over-distorted-map-of-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/twitter-india-md-manish-maheshwari-booked-over-distorted-map-of-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter India MD Manish Maheshwari booked over distorted map of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-332757\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/83827992.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/06\/83827992.jpg 400w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/06\/83827992-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/06\/83827992-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/06\/83827992-265x198.jpg 265w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><br \/>\nTwitter has been slammed for representing the distorted Indian map that showed Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh as two separate countries on its website on Monday 28 June.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter India&#8217;s MD Manish Maheshwari has been booked under Section 505 (2) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Section 74 of IT (Amendment) Act 2008 for showing distorted map of India.<\/p>\n<p>The complaint was registered by a Bajrang Dal leader in Bulandshahr. &#8220;The world map does not show Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir as parts of India. This is not a coincidence. This act has hurt the sentiments of Indians, including me,&#8221; Bajrang Dal&#8217;s western UP convenor Praveen Bhati said in the complaint.<\/p>\n<p>The police in Uttar Pradesh&#8217;s Bulandshahr district have lodged an FIR against Manish Maheshwari and News Partnerships Head Amrita Tripathi\u00a0over the social media platform putting up a wrong map of India.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter has been slammed for representing the distorted Indian map that showed Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh as two separate countries on its website on Monday 28 June. Twitter India&#8217;s MD Manish Maheshwari has been booked under Section 505 (2) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Section 74 of IT (Amendment) Act 2008 for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":332757,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56,36],"tags":[14380,605],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332756"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332758,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332756\/revisions\/332758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/332757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}