By: Guardian
June 29, 2021
Twitter is facing criminal charges in India after the site published a map that incorrectly showed the turbulent Indian region of Kashmir as a separate country.
On Monday night a report was filed to police in the state of Uttar Pradesh against Twitter’s head in India, Manish Maheshwari, calling the publication of the distorted map “an act of treason”.
The error was a sensitive one. The state of Jammu and Kashmir has been rocked by a separatist insurgency fighting for independence from India for decades. In August 2019, the Indian government unilaterally stripped the region of its semi-autonomous powers, to the anger of many living in the state.