UP Police registers FIR against Twitter, The Wire, Rana Ayyub, Shama Mohamed, Mohammed Zubair for tweeting Ghaziabad attack video

While the video was portrayed as an attack on Muslim man by Hindus, the UP Police has maintained that the attackers were both Hindus and Muslims and the reason for the attack was a personal dispute and not communal.

Mohammed Zubair, Rana Ayyub, The Wire, Salman Nizami, Maskoor Usmani, Shama Mohammed, Saba Naqvi, Twitter Inc

The Uttar Pradesh (UP) Police has registered a case against social media website Twitter, news portal The Wire, journalists Rana Ayyub and Saba Naqvi, Congress politicians Shama Mohamed, Salman Nizami and Maskoor Usmani and Alt news co-founder Mohammed Zubair among others for tweeting a video from Ghaziabad showing a Muslim man's beard being chopped off by some attackers.

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