Twitter suspends five accounts of L-G imposters

New Delhi: Taking a legal course in connection with the complaint by the Delhi office demanding action against the imposters of Delhi L-G Anil Baijal on Twitter, the microblogging site has suspended five such accounts.

Meanwhile, expediting the process, the Delhi police has also written to Twitter seeking log details of these accounts. They had done so much before the lieutenant-governor’s directions came, a senior police official said. “We had already asked Twitter to close the fake accounts operating in L-G Anil Baijal’s name before the directions came from his office,” he said.

“As soon as the information about the accounts came to our notice, we requested Twitter to close them. Five accounts have been closed and legal action has also been initiated in the matter. We have written to Twitter to share log details of these accounts,” the official said.

Several of these fake handles, active since Mr Baijal was appointed to the post on December 28, were putting out misleading posts critical of CM Arvind Kejriwal and his government.

On January 1, the Lieutenant Governor’s office made its Twitter debut with the handle being @LtGovDelhi. Over 2,600 people are following it as of now.