New Delhi: Twitter has named Vinay Prakash as a resident complaint officer for India, according to the company’s website.
The US-based company has oversee storms for alleged failure to comply with its new rules in India, whose mandates, among other requirements, the appointment of three main personnel – Compliance heads, Nodal officers and complaints of officers by social media platforms with more than 50 users of Lakh , All three personnel must be residents in India.
According to the information that was updated on the Twitter website, Vinay Prakash was a resident complaint (RGGE).
Users can contact them using an email ID listed on the page.
“Twitter can be contacted in India at the following address: Floor 4, Estate, 121 Dickenson Road, Bangalore 560 042,” said the next page.
Prakash’s name appears together with Jeremy Kessel, which is the director of global legal policy, and is based in the US.
The company has also published its compliance report for the period of May 26, 2021, until June 25, 2021.
These are other key requirements under the IT rules that come into force on May 26.
Twitter previously appointed Dharmendra Chatur as a temporary resident.
Complaints officers for India as required by IT rules.
However, Chatur resigned last month.
Twitter has been in the Loggerheads with the Indian government over the rules of new social media.
The government has faced Twitter for disobedience and intentional failure to obey the new rules, even though recurring reminders.
Twitter – which estimates 1.75 crore users in India – loss of legal shields as intermediaries in India, becoming responsible for users who post content that violates the law.
On July 8, Twitter had told the Delhi High Court that he had appointed a temporary head compliance officer, who was an Indian population, and that it would try to fill the regular position within eight weeks according to the new IT rules.
It also said that in the process of making promises to the population of India as a temporary RGO and it is expected to do so on or before July 11 and details will be updated on the ‘help page’ as soon as possible.