AGARTALA, Jan 10 (TIWN): Supreme Court of India restrained Tripura Police cyber cell from acting in furtherance of its notice under section 91, Cr. P. C. to Twitter, in respect of activist-journalist Samiullah Shabbir Khan's tweets about violence in Tripura, the Live Law reported.‘The impugned notice asked Twitter to remove the Tweet and sought details of IP address and phone number for the purpose of investigation for the criminal cases registered against Khan’, reported the new portal.Issuing notice on the writ petition, the bench of Justices DY Chandrachud and AS Bopanna recorded the following submissions by Advocate Shahrukh Alam, for the petitioner-

1. The petitioner had put out a tweet on his Twitter account referring to the violence that had taken place in Tripura and the vandalisation of places of religious worship;

2. The Tripura police was tagged in the tweet;

3. On 22.11.2021, a communication was addressed from the office of the Superintendent of Police (Cyber Crime), Crime Branch, Tripura Police to Twitter Inc., adverting to the registration of FIRs under sections 153 A, 153 B, 469, 471, 503, 504, 120 B of the IPC and section 13 of the UAPA. The communication sought, inter alia, the removal of the contents of Twitter accounts whose URLs/Links are provided separately; to preserve the contents of the Twitter accounts from 01/10/2021 to 30/04/2022 whose URLs/Links are provided separately; details of user registration of the Twitter accounts as listed; Browsing log details from 01/10/2021 to 07/11/2021 of the Twitter accounts as listed; E-mail addresses added to the Twitter accounts as listed; List of Login/Logout IP addresses of the Twitter accounts as listed from the 01/10/2021 to 07/11/2021; Mobile numbers added to the Twitter accounts as listed at the time of registration and subsequent updation.

"In the above premises, it has been submitted that writing about violence will certainly not attract any of the offences to which a reference is contained in the communication", the bench recorded.