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The Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) has asked the microblogging company to "stop beating around the bush" and "comply with the laws of the land". 

Read more about Twitter's allegation of 'intimidation tactics' by police baseless: Govt on Business Standard. The ministry slammed Twitter's statement on Thursday as an attempt to dictate terms to the world's largest democracy.

The IT ministry asserted that representatives of social media companies, including Twitter, 'are and will always remain safe in India', and that there is no threat to their personal safety.

Twitter has no locus in dictating what India's legal policy framework should be, the Centre said New Delhi: After Twitter today said it was concerned over the "potential threat to freedom of expression" and "core elements" of the new digital rules, the government retorted that the social media site should "stop beating around the bush and comply with the laws of the land" instead of "dictating terms" to the world's largest democracy. "Twitter needs to stop beating around the bush and comply with the laws of the land. Law making and policy formulations is the sole prerogative of the sovereign...

NEW DELHI: After Twitter labelled BJP vice-president Raman Singh’s tweet on the alleged Congress toolkit as “manipulated media”, the former Chhattisgarh CM asked the social media giant on Tuesday why it was “afraid” to reply to the Delhi police notice. Earlier, BJP spokesman Sambit Patra’s May 18 tweet on the toolkit had been tagged as “manipulated media”. FacebookTwitterLinkedinEMail