Twitter restores accounts it had withheld after govt's legal request

MeitY Uses recourse u/s 69A of the Act, sends legal request in the matter

Twitter India on Monday restored many of the accounts it had earlier withheld on the platform in response to a legal request from Indian authorities related to the ongoing farmer agitation.

The accounts, it is learnt, were taken down after a request to take them down under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act.
 

Twitter temporarily withheld some accounts in India under its Country Withheld Content policy in response to a valid legal request from the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. 

A legal request was sent by MeitY for the withholding of accounts on Saturday, after the hashtag “promoting genocide” began