We missed this earlier: The Ministry of Railways directed X (formerly Twitter) to take down two links that were pushing back against the changes the government had made to railway recruitment requirements in October, as per documents reviewed by MediaNama. In a takedown notice issued under Section 79(3)(b) of the Information Technology Act, 2000, the Ministry mentioned that the two posts are “misleading and sensitive/provoking media/content regarding railway recruitment rules which may lead to disruption of public order.” It added that the posts violated Section 353 of the Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS, 2023), which penalises the act of conducing public mischief.
This information comes as part of the appeal that X submitted at the Karnataka High Court against the decision of the single-judge bench that had dismissed its petition challenging the constitutionality of the Sahyog portal. The case also challenged the government’s use of Section 79(3)(b) and Rule 3(1)(d) of the IT Act, 2000, and the IT Rules, 2021, respectively, for issuing content takedown notices. Previously, as part of that case, X disclosed that the government had sent it takedown notices for about 1132 URLs/pieces of content between March 2024 and 2025. As per the appeal, since March, the government has sent many more takedown notices for at least 201 more pieces of content between April and October 2025.
The appeal petition mentions that during the first half of 2025 (January-June 2025), the government received 29,118 removal requests, including those under Section 69A. X took actions on 26, 641 of these requests.
Details of the key content takedown requests sent to X:
Post questioning a Bihar DM’s interaction with an alleged criminal:
On April 9, the Bihar Police issued a notice to X demanding the takedown of three posts questioning the district magistrate (DM) of Bettaiah in Bihar with an alleged criminal.
The police issued the takedown notice because the posts violated Section 94 of the Bhartiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS, 2023), which empowers the courts and police to summon individuals or direct entities to produce necessary documents (including digital evidence) for investigations. The police classified the content as hateful, consisting of violent threats and incitement to offence.
Posts around the Anna University sexual assault case:
Chennai Police sent X takedown requests for seven posts associated with seven different accounts on the platform on April 23, 2025. These posts largely focused on the protests and pushback surrounding the Anna University Sexual assault case against the state government. The police issued takedown notices citing violations of Section 196 of BNS, which prohibits statements promoting enmity between groups, and Section 353. Besides seeking content takedowns, the Chennai Police also directed the platform to preserve all the contents of the tweets, including associated metadata, and provide the IP…
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