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Comment by senthilnayagam | Hacker News Reader

Delhi Police served a legal notice to Twitter India, it was not a raid

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/toolkit...

> Delhi Police, controlled by India’s central government, on Monday evening searched two offices of Twitter — in the national capital state of Delhi and Gurgaon, in neighboring state of Haryana — to seek more information about Twitter’s rationale to label one of the tweets by ruling partly BJP spokesperson as “manipulated media.”

> An hour into the search process, Delhi Police Special Cell team, which investigates terrorism and other crimes, vacated both of Twitter’s offices because they were closed and there were no Twitter employees to engage with at the premises

That sure sounds like a physical raid.

...surprise visit?

...unexpected company?

Yes. Otherwise, an e-mail to Twitter's attorneys would have sufficed.

They were searching for a representative to serve the notice to.

Serve notice of what? This didn't seem to be mentioned in the article.

Also, is that a thing police in India do? Here in the US, if documents need to be physically served, it's usually done by a single representative of the court, not a policeman, let alone many police.

I'm so confused. The reporting on this sucks.

Did they stand at the front door knocking for an hour waiting for someone to come out? Did they physically break into the office? Does "closed" mean the office was physically closed/locked? Does "no Twitter employees" mean there were no humans physically present at the office, or does it mean there were no people directly employed by Twitter at the office? E.g., are they not counting security and other 24/7 staff that would normally be at an office building?

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