Telangana police’s takedown notice targets journalists & fact-checkers; cites ‘sensitive communal overtones’

Amid an increasing crackdown on online free speech across India, Telangana police sent a notice to X seeking the removal of over 41 social media posts related to news and commentary on an incident involving Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) members slapping a Urdu teacher in Telangana’s Nizamabad district. On June 27, some Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) members entered Bharat Chandra School in Armoor, Nizamabad district, and physically assaulted Amer, an Urdu teacher, allegedly because h