Parliament Panel Grills Twitter Over Comic Kunal Kamra’s Tweets: Sources

New Delhi:

Twitter was reportedly questioned right now by a parliamentary panel for not eradicating stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra’s “offensive tweets” concentrating on the Supreme Court earlier this month.

The social media large’s coverage head Mahima Kaul was grilled by the Joint Committee on the Personal Data Protection Bill headed by the BJP’s Meenakshi Lekhi, sources stated.  

Both Ms Lekhi and Congress chief Vivek Tankha took the lead in questioning Twitter for holding the posts, stated the sources.

Twitter is already in bother for geo-tagging Ladakh as part of China and has promised the panel that will probably be corrected by November 30. Twitter’s chief privateness officer Damien Kieran despatched an apology letter to the panel over the lapse, which was revealed after customers tagged their posts as being in Ladakh however the geo-tag confirmed their location in China.

Kunal Kamra faces contempt circumstances over his tweets attacking the Supreme Court for granting TV anchor Arnab Goswami reprieve after his arrest in an abetment to suicide case. Eight folks, largely attorneys, have filed circumstances in opposition to him.

The Mumbai-based comedian has refused to both retract his tweets or apologise for his posts.  “I don’t intend to retract my tweets or apologise for them. I believe they speak for themselves… No lawyers, no apology, no fine, no waste of space,” he wrote in tweets.

Mr Kamra stuffed his timeline with indignant and caustic posts in opposition to the Supreme Court for granting interim bail to Arnab Goswami per week after his arrest over the suicide of an architect, Anvay Naik, and his mom in 2018. Judges DY Chandrachud and Indira Banerjee pulled up the Maharashtra authorities over the Republic TV anchor’s arrest and stated: “If we as a constitutional court do not lay down law and protect liberty, then who will?”

Attorney General KK Venugopal, permitting legal contempt circumstances in opposition to Mr Kamra, stated in a letter that he had crossed the road. “It is time that people understand attacking the Supreme Court unjustifiably and brazenly will lead to punishment,” the highest regulation officer had stated in a letter.

The comic’s row with Arnab Goswami began after he was banned by a number of airways for heckling the anchor on an IndiGo flight from Mumbai to Lucknow. After he posted a video of the encounter, through which he was seen bombarding the Republic editor with questions and getting no response.