Centre orders X to block footage of RPF shooter Chetan Singh

X, formerly known as Twitter, on Tuesday, was ordered to remove footage of Railway Protection Force constable Chetan Singh, seemingly recorded by passengers in the Jaipur–Mumbai Central Express after he allegedly shot his superior and three passengers — Sub-Inspector Tika Ram Meena, and Abdul Qadirbhai Mohammed Hussain Bhanpurwala, Akhtar Abbas Ali, and Sadar Mohammed Hussain. It shows Mr. Singh standing over a blurred-out body lying on the floor of a train compartment in a pool of blood, surrounded by stunned passengers as he goes on a tirade mentioning Pakistan, Indian media, and references Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, and “Thackeray”. Will he be garlanded when released?” Other posts removed include those by independent journalist Rana Ayyub, a fan account of Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha MP for Krishnanagar Mahua Moitra, Nimo Yadav, a parody account with over 64,000 followers, and co-founder of the Alt News fact-checking portal Mohammed Zubair. When a video of two women being paraded naked and sexually harassed went viral in Manipur last month, the Union Home Ministry censored footage of that clip as well, and removed posts that had blurred screenshots concealing the entirety of the victims on YouTube, Instagram and X.