Senior Lawyer Prashant Bhushan also said on Thursday that he has received a notice from Twitter for sharing a cartoon by Satish Acharya.
Network18 has terminated its contract with popular cartoonist Manjul, Scroll reported citing people familiar with the situation. The development came a few days after Twitter sent the cartoonist a notice informing him that it has received a legal request from Indian authorities to take action against his social media profile.
According to The Wire, the cartoonist has been working with with Network18, a media company owned by Reliance Industries, on a contract basis for the last six years.
Senior Lawyer Prashant Bhushan also said on Thursday that he has received a notice from Twitter for sharing a cartoon by Satish Acharya, an editorial cartoonist. Bhushan said he was informed by the social media company that the tweet “violates the law(s) of India”.
Manjul, on June 4, had shared the email he received from Twitter. The government, unlike in Prashant Bhushan case, had had sought action against Manjul’s profile instead of a specific tweet.
While sharing the email on his Twitter account, Manjul wrote: “Jai ho Modi ji ki sarkaar ki [Hail the Modi government]”.
The cartoonist has been a popular figure due to his hard-hitting sketches, taking potshots at the establishment for its failures time to time. He has also illustrated the grim reality of the devastating second wave of the pandemic in India and slow pace of the vaccination drive.
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