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Two more complaints, call for legal action against Twitter India

Country Head Manish Maheshwari and news partnerships head Amrita Tripathi were booked under IPC and Information Technology (Amendment) Act 2008 for wrong map of India on its website

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Neha Alawadhi New Delhi
Twitter India's troubles continued on Tuesday after at least two more complaints being filed against the microblogging platform, and a political leader calling for legal action.

Twitter India Country Head Manish Maheshwari and news partnerships head Amrita Tripathi had been booked under Section 505 (2) of the Indian Penal Code and Section 74 of Information Technology (Amendment) Act 2008 for showing a wrong map of India on its website, on the complaint of a Bajrang Dal leader in Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh. 

The issue revolves around a controversial map of India on the career section of Twitter, and showed Jammu and Kashmir and

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