A complaint seeking
registration of FIR against Haryana Home Minister Anil Vij for “his hateful
statement calling for the killing of Disha Ravi on Twitter” has been filed
in Bengaluru, ANI reported. The complaint has been received at DCP Central,
Bengaluru office. Anil Vij made his opinion known on the Disha Ravi
arrest case by voicing his thoughts on Twitter. Initially, the tweet was
removed by Twitter on the basis of a complaint filed by a user in Germany. Twitter
cited the Germany Network Enforcement Act under which social network providers
are under obligation to delete unlawful comments.

“If seeds of anti
nationalism have been sown in somebody’s thought process, he/she should be
destroyed from roots… whether she is Disha Ravi or anyone else,” he tweeted
in Hindi.

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Twitter later restored the
original tweet saying that it “is not subject to removal” under rules governing
extreme speech online.

Vij shared a
screenshot of the notice sent to him by Twitter.

Climate activist Disha
Ravi was arrested on Sunday for her alleged involvement in spreading the “toolkit”
in support of the farmers’ protests. The controversial “toolkit” was previously
shared by Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg.

The police claimed that
Ravi had edited the “toolkit” that contained information on the protests.

The 22-year-old
activist’s arrest sparked an outrage and many political leaders extended their
support for her. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, Delhi chief minister Arvind
Kejriwal and RJD leader Manoj Jha voiced their concerns against the arrest.

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Supreme Court asked
Twitter last week to devise a mechanism that keeps fake news and messages
promoting hate-mongering in check. This came at a time when the Centre was
demanding the deletion of 1,000 accounts and posts that they claimed were
spreading provocative content related to the farmers’ protests.