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Toolkit Case: Twitter Takes U-Turn After Deleting Anil Vij’s Tweet On Disha Ravi’s Arrest

Twitter’s statement came hours after it issued a notice to Vij and said it deleted the tweet based on a complaint from a user in Germany. The Haryana Minister also shared a screenshot of the message from Twitter.

Amid the ongoing controversy surrounding the arrest of climate activist Disha Ravi in connection with a toolkit case, micro-blogging platform Twitter on Monday said a tweet by Haryana Home Minister Anil Vij in which he says those with “seeds of anti-nationalism should be destroyed” has been investigated and “is not subject to removal” under rules governing extreme speech online.

Twitter’s statement came hours after it issued a notice to Vij and said it deleted the tweet based on a complaint from a user in Germany.

The Haryana Minister also shared a screenshot of the message from Twitter.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="und" dir="ltr"><a href="https://t.co/Irkh4ci6Zd" rel='nofollow'>pic.twitter.com/Irkh4ci6Zd</a></p>&mdash; ANIL VIJ MINISTER HARYANA (@anilvijminister) <a href="https://twitter.com/anilvijminister/status/1361241935646580748?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel='nofollow'>February 15, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

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Vij had earlier in a Tweet posted in Hindi said: “If seeds of anti-nationalism have been sown in somebody's thought process then he or she should be destroyed from roots be it Disha Ravi or anyone else.”

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="hi" dir="ltr">देश विरोध का बीज जिसके भी दिमाग में हो उसका समूल नाश कर देना चाहिए फिर चाहे वह <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/%E0%A4%A6%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%BE_%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel='nofollow'>#दिशा_रवि</a> हो यां कोई और ।</p>&mdash; ANIL VIJ MINISTER HARYANA (@anilvijminister) <a href="https://twitter.com/anilvijminister/status/1361176412950982659?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel='nofollow'>February 15, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

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Disha Ravi, who has been sent to five-day police custody, was arrested by the Delhi Police in the case involving toolkit tweeted earlier this month by Swedish teen activist Greta Thunberg to extend support to the protesting farmers.

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