“Stance against BJP, RSS”: Insta handles of Malayalam daily Deshabhimani, portal 'No Cap' disabled
News portal The Wire was blocked for two hours on Monday
Kochi: Meta has reportedly disabled Instagram handles of Malayalam newspaper Deshabhimani, and online news portal ‘No Cap’.
According to a report by The News Minute, the platform also had blocked national news portal The Wire was blocked in India for nearly two hours on Monday, February 9.
“The Instagram account was disabled on February 1, coinciding with the day the Union Government presented its budget. In the ten days since, the organisation has repeatedly reached out to Meta seeking restoration of the account, but has received no response or resolution,” reported TNM quoting the Coordinating Editor, Sajan Evugen for the digital edition of Deshabhimani as saying.
Sajan also shared that they posted several news card on the budget day, however later that day Meta disabled their account without any proper explanation.
“We have submitted an appeal but have not received a response, we also haven’t received any notification on community standards violation,” he added.
Meanwhile, Deshabhimani, the mouthpiece of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in a report stated that the action came in the backdrop of the newspaper’s reporting and firm stance against
“Deshabhimani regularly shared posts highlighting what it described as the Union government’s neglect of Kerala and its anti-people policies,” the newspaper said, suggesting these could be possible reasons behind the ban.
In a Facebook post, No Cap stated that action against its Instagram handle was taken without any explanation or specified reason.
Quoting Ali Hyder, Executive Editor of No Cap, the TNM reported that they initially received a notice from Meta suspending the account for an alleged violation of community standards, without specifying any particular post or content.
“We submitted an appeal explaining our position, but the response we received was a permanent suspension, citing only ‘community violence’ without any clear explanation,” Hyder stated.
According to Hyder, in the days leading up to the suspension, the account had shared news posts critical of the RSS and reports mentioning Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s name in connection with the Epstein files.
“We are not certain about the exact reason, but some of the content we posted recently was related to the Epstein files,” he said.
Deshabhimani in its report stated that the Instagram account had shared posts opposing Union government policies impacting ordinary citizens, criticising what it described as the neglect of Kerala, and condemning the BJP government’s alleged submission to the United States and propaganda against communal harmony.
“Meta’s action comes at a time when this content had reached a wide audience,” the Deshabhimani report read.
Following the ban, on Monday, February 9, Deshabhimani appealed for the account’s reinstatement, but has not received any favourable response from Meta so far. “We will continue our efforts to communicate with Meta, but for now, we have launched a new page,” Sajan said.
Alongside news portal accounts, several Instagram pages that had criticised the Union government were also disabled over the past week.
In a social media post, The Wire said it had informally learned that the ministry had requested Meta to block a 52-second satirical animation on Instagram. Although the account was later restored, the cartoon remained inaccessible.
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Delhi: Father, son held for killing 19-year-old woman in suspected honour killing
New Delhi (PTI): The Delhi Police has arrested a man and his son for allegedly murdering his 19-year-old daughter in west Delhi's Hari Nagar area, an official said on Friday.
The case first came to light on April 1 after a PCR call was received around 2 pm, alleging that a woman had been killed by her family members and her body was being taken for last rites, he said.
The accused, identified as Mohammad Maneer (55), a vegetable vendor, and his son Meraj Ali (19), were arrested in connection with the case, the officer said.
The victim had been in a relationship with a man from her native place for the past two years, which was opposed by her father, Maneer and brother Meraj, he said.
"When the girl did not end the relationship despite objections, the family killed her," the officer said.
On April 1, the police said that when their team reached the spot, they found that the woman's body was being taken for burial.
Acting on the input, the burial process was stopped over suspicion of honour killing.
"Police intercepted the family members and took possession of the body," he said.
Police said that the man who had made the PCR told them that the woman was in love with his cousin.
During the inquiry, police also interacted with the PCR caller, who said his cousin, a friend of the deceased, had informed him about the situation and suspected foul play, prompting him to alert the police control room.
The body of the woman was subsequently shifted to the mortuary of Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital for preservation and postmortem.
Police said that both the crime team and the forensic science laboratory (FSL) team were called to inspect the scene and collect evidence.
Police said that, as per the postmortem report, the cause of death was identified as smothering, indicating that the woman was suffocated.
A preliminary inquiry also revealed that the family had initiated preparations for the last rites soon after the woman's death, raising suspicion about the circumstances.
Initial investigation pointed to the family's opposition to the woman's relationship.
"The family members of the woman saw her with the man, and she was taken back home. We got to know that she was beaten up and even locked inside the house for some days," a source said.
Further investigation into the matter is underway, police added.
