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Pakistan used nearly 200 Twitter handles to trigger discontent during Delhi riots: Dossier

Pakistan used nearly 200 Twitter handles to trigger discontent during Delhi riots: Dossier

India Blooms News Service | @indiablooms | 17 Mar 2020, 07:13 am

Islamabad/IBNS: Pakistan allegedly used nearly 200 Twitter handles to provoke Indian Muslims and trigger discontent against the police during the recent violence in Delhi, as per an official dossier compiled by Indian security agencies.

A couple of hundred radical handles targeted the Delhi Police using hashtags such as #ShameonDelhiPolice, #DelhiPoliceTruth and #DelhiPoliceMurders, among others, between February 25 and March 3, according to the dossier, which was accessed by Hindustan Times newspaper.

The dossier cites detailed investigations conducted by Indian agencies to add that these handles were created at the behest of the Pakistani deep state with the purpose of creating major communal disturbance in India, reported the newspaper.

According to the newspaper report, several of these social media handles were in touch with some handles created in India.

The idea behind the orchestrated exercise, according to the dossier, was to show that the Delhi Police unfairly targeted Muslims during the communal violence that killed 53 people and left about 500 injured, and to spread the violence to other parts of the country. That, however, did not happen, reported Hindustan Times.

The dossier reportedly identified 70 handles from Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Karachi, Lahore which were tweeting under the hashtags like  #DelhiRiots2020, and over 100 handles tweeting under the hashtag #DelhiBurning. 

Delhi witnessed massive violence last month over the new citizenship law passed by the Indian government in December last year.

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