For context, some high profile activist / journalist accounts have been suspended of late. There's been a noticeable right-wing leaning enforcement of twitter policies in India.

I think the trigger point was when Jay Shah's account[1] got a blue tick despite being a dormant account with a just 19 followers (at the time of being verified).

Twitter India then issued a statement, which further had the Streisand effect:

https://twitter.com/TwitterIndia/status/1192384055884447744 (heh, just noticed the ratio on that ! :))

[1] https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/india/with-zero-tweet19-...