Bengal police flags images of attack on Bangladesh Hindu temple as ‘violation of Indian law’

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Saturday, December 4, 2021, By HinduPost
Desk, December 3, 2021

Images of the attack on a Hindu temple in Bangladesh shared by a Twitter  user have been flagged as a
‘violation’ of Bharat’s law.Twitter has informed the user that they haven’t taken any action but have received a ‘request’ from the West Bengal government and police to take action against
the said tweet. An OpIndia report on the issue says: On December 2, Twitter user MrSinha_ got an email from Twitter that they have  received a complaint against one of his posts on their
platform. In the email, Twitter

said that Govt. of WestBengal, Office of theAssistant Commissioner of
Police(III), Special Task
Force, Kolkata had sent the
request to take action against
a particular tweet as it
“violates the LAW of India.”
Though Twitter did not take
any action on the tweet but
mentioned that it was their
obligation in the interest of
transparency to inform Sinha
about the complaint. The
email was in a standardised
format that it sends to every
user against whom it receives
such a complaint. In the email,
the social media portal
advised the user, in this case,
Sinha, to take appropriate
action in the matter to protect
‘his own interests’ that
includes seeking advice from
a legal counsel and
challenging the request in
court.
The complaint is in connection with an August 8 tweet where Sinha had
published two pictures depicting how murtis of devis and devatas in a
Hindu temple in Bangladesh had been destroyed by Islamists. In a tweet
accompanying the picture, he wrote “This is what happens when Hindus
become a minority. Hindu houses & Temples attacked & idols destroyed in
Bangladesh. This news won’t attract ‘seculars/liberals’. Nobody is going to
write letters to UN. No minority under attack type movements”.
These pictures have been used by several media outlets including Free
Press Journal that published a report with an embedded video on August 9
with the same images shared by the Twitter user The photographs were
also shared by Dhaka Tribune in their report. The Tribune, The Week, the
Commune were the other media outlets.
It is pertinent to note that while the Bangladesh police didn’t raise any
objections, it was the West Bengal police that did so despite the fact that
the incident didn’t take place within its jurisdiction.
Twitter has often suppressed Hindu voices on its platform. Twitter
suspended the account of ‘Stories of Bengali Hindus’ for sharing ignored
stories of the trauma faced by persecuted Bengali Hindus citing “violating
rules against ban evasion” as the reason. However, the microblogging site
has never controlled the communist-Islamist alliance that uses the platform for their propaganda.