According to the company’s website, Twitter has appointed Vinay Prakash as its Resident Grievance Officer for India. The US-based company is in the eye of a storm in India over its alleged failure to comply with new IT regulations that, among other requirements, mandate the appointment of three key personnel – chief compliance officer, nodal officer and grievance officer. By social media platform with over 50 lakh users. All three personnel must be residents of India.
As per updated information TwitterWebsite of Vinay Prakash is the Resident Grievance Officer (RGO). Users can contact him using the email id listed on the page. Page added, “Twitter in India can be contacted at the following address: 4th Floor, The Estate, 121 Dickenson Road, Bangalore 560 042.” Prakash’s name appears along with Jeremy Kessel, Director of Global Legal Policy, and is based in the US. The company has also published its compliance report for the period May 26, 2021 to June 25, 2021. This was another important requirement under the IT rules which came into force on 26 May.
Twitter had earlier appointed Dharmendra Chatur as its Interim Resident Grievance Officer for India as per IT regulations. However, Chatur had stepped down last month. Twitter is in conflict with the Indian government regarding the new rules of social media. Despite repeated reminders, Twitter has come under fire over the government’s willful defiance and failure to comply with the country’s new IT regulations. Twitter, which has an estimated 1.75 million users in India, lost his legal shield As an intermediary in India, to be liable to users who post any illegal content.
On July 8, Twitter had informed the Delhi High Court that it had appointed an interim Chief Compliance Officer, who is a resident of India, and that it would endeavor to fill the regular post within eight weeks as per the new IT rules. It had also said that it was in the process of appointing an Indian resident as its interim RGO and was expected to do so on or before July 11 and the details would be updated on its ‘help page’ at the earliest. .
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