1 Thread on how @Twitter & @TwitterIndia violated their own @Policy terms of service to push a political agenda. The case refers to Shehla Rashid Shora & how twitter management broke the rules for her. Important that @rsprasad@HMOIndia & @DelhiPolice take note
2 how do we know this original account @shehlarashid was hers? Because the soon to be Chief of twitter India as well as several blue tick handles had tagged her & actively interacted with her including @CSR_India & @AJStream
3 note how the @CSR_India link leads directly to a photo of her & quotes of her, on decreasing the age of consent while Raheel’s tagging of her is to do with an @AJEnglish programme on the Nirbhaya Rape case protests.
4 yet despite the ban on her account sometime in august 2013, @TwitterIndia miraculously allows her to activate a new account immediately. 18 months later @verified proceeds to give her a blue tick days after the Tukde-Tukde protests at JNU in February 2016 (Umar Khalid currently
5 in jail on UAPA was also blue ticked almost simultaneously) the funny thing is, that at this point of time, you could only get blue ticked if you knew someone at twitter. Their public verification was announced only in July 2016
6 Think about what happened. Twitter officials knew about & interacted with her previous account, allowed her to circumvent the ban, & within days of the Feb 9th terrorist OGW protests at JNU gave her account (already in violation of their ban evasion policy) a blue tick.
7 mind you, even as per the latest revision of @Twitter@Policy her new account @Shehla_Rashid remains is absolute violation of the rules - note specifically the language “regardless of when the other account was created”
8 forget the laws of India - @Twitter@TwitterIndia & @Policy don’t even enforce their own policies when it’s suits their political agenda. Clearest case of corporate malfeasance, collusion & politicking there is.
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The Agarwals have 𝗺𝘂𝗰𝗵 more money than Salman. So worth remembering what happened in the Salman hit & run case. This country is a joke, this country’s entire “law and order” apparatus is a joke. And make no mistake 𝗩𝗲𝗱𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗦𝗮𝗹𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗱𝗶𝗱
2002
• salman kills 1 & injures 3 driving his car
2013 (𝗲𝗹𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿)
• first charges are laid
May 2015
• found guilty, confirms salman did not have a license till 2004, his driver who lied saying he and not salman was driving the car charged with perjury, is given bail hours later - pending appeal
The biggest tragedy was prime witness Ravindra Kumar - a former commando - who was isolated & mentally tortured by his own Mumbai police, then arrested and due to impoverishment died of TB before the case concluded. All this was done by his seniors to force him to retract his statement.
December 2015 (𝘀𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵𝘀 𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿)
• Salman is acquitted - for lack of evidence
July 2016
• MH government files appeal against his acquittal. Supreme Court admits it - but no fast tracking - court said not laikely to even have first hearing for at least 4 years
May 2024
• no news of the appeal
11 years to frame charges
2 years to find guilty
7 months to acquit
8 years and no hearing of appeal against acquittal
.Meet Sujata Shroff a pune builder. In 2017 she crashed into a median killing a 3 year old girl, her mother & injuring 3 others badly. She was granted bail within hours & cancellation of bail plea was rejected. Since 2017 no news of the case. indianexpress.com/article/cities…
.Meet Mukund Abhyankar head of Cosmos Bank. His rash driving killed Arundhati Hasabnis in Pune in 2016. He was convicted 7 years later. His punishment? 6 months simple imprisonment & a fine of …. hold your breath ……. 1200 rupees. Yes One Thousand Two Hundred rupees.
🧵 Thank you @IsraelinIndia & Amb @NaorGilon for a spectacular dinner with chef Shaul Ben Aderet. Lemme talk you through what I ate. BTW did you know if you’re vegetarian you’ll be totally comfortable in israel? We started with a masterclass on a proper shakshouka. The table was lined with wayyyy too many starters (typical Israeli style stay fit trick - by the time the main arrives, you’ve gotten full on veg)
Israeli salad. Beetroot & Pomegranate salad. An insanely delicious baba ghanoush with tarragon oil, and my favourite - Sabich filling (there’s nothing quite like sabich - fried eggplant, boiled potatoes, tahini, mixed with pickled lemons and an Indian-Iraqi Jewish sauce called AMBA made of mangoes)
Israeli cous cous (which is technically a pasta, with slivered almonds, the ubiquitous hummus, walnuts with crunchy spinach & a matbucha (roasted tomato salad) on side, served with is awesome salty sweet challah (I forgot how much I love challah)
🧵 This morning was spent at Kibbutz Be’eri. One of the first to be hit on 7/10. The scale of destruction is unimaginable. Most of the stuff we weren’t allowed to film as families haven’t given permission. This was the house of Vivian Silver. She was a peace activist who used to
Take Gazan children for medical treatment and ran contact and employment programmes. They knew exactly who lived here. That didn’t stop them. They poured kerosene on her and burnt her. We don’t know if she was alive or dead when this happened. You can see her kitchen was
Violently looted and destroyed. Initially thought kidnapped, we know know she was killed - her only remains? A single tooth. The next house hit really hard. They leave behind a cat that looks just like my Aprameya & Alamelu. They separated the kids and women in the safe room
DELHI MEDIA GOSSIP:🧵full blown rebellion brewing in AAP. After throwing Sisodia to the wolves, Kejriwal today threw Saurabh & Atishi as well. Party leaders telling me “what kind of a leader does this”. Lawyers tellme Keju’s legal strategy is sound. Since he has never signed
a single document this will come down to hearsay. Vijay Nair has already said Keju took all the decisions. Soon Atishi & Saurabh will be implicated by Keju and they will also say Keju took all the decisions. But Keju will say “show me proof - all three colluded & they’re trying
to frame me”. Essentially Kejriwal’s conviction if it happens, will be based on circumstantial evidence. But my AAP sources think from a different angle: this is a ploy to keep Sunita Bhabhi as Rabri Devi part 2 & eliminate all alternate sources of power. In this Keju is right.
🧵 on the interview: 11 minutes in I’m wondering where Putin is going with the history. All accurate history, but what’s being said about Polonisation is equally applicable to the 2/3rds of Russia to the east. Undermining his own point.
.15 mins he acknowledges the Molotov Ribbentrop pact. And the movement west of Poland to what was eastern germany. underplaying Russia’s role. 17 mins the transfer of Russian lands to Ukraine SSR including lands with no connection to it - esp Black Sea. Tucker keeps pushing back.
19 mins - inexplicable ukrainisation including Hungarian, Romanian and polish lands by Stalin-Khrushchev. He says Ukraine is an artifical state (hmm what’s any country? Is there a time limit on authentic state and artificial state). Tucker asks at 21 if Putin told Orban he could
This is a 🧵 of appreciation for @harshmadhusudan @alok_bhatt & @kaushkrahul who have been whacking casteist butt for the past few days. These casteists incidentally are the same ones who collaborated with invaders for a thousand years to preserve their privileges. This is
Also why temples cannot be given back as long as these self-perpetuating casteist parasites abrogate the right to run temples or determine rules in temples they don’t run. Remember these parasites collaborated with those who demolished our Mandirs - for jaziya exemption & gifts.
It was Hindutva which got us the mandir back…. And hindutva’s entire premise is an end to caste - the same caste that weakened us as a nation but enriched these parasites at the cost of our independence. Let’s be clear - none of these casteist scumbags got us back our mandir.