A day after the Union Home Ministry banned the Popular Front of India (PFI) for five years, Twitter took down its profile, along with those of its leaders. Facebook and Instagram, too, withheld the official accounts of the organisation.
On Twitter, where the organisation had over 80,000 followers, it showed that the account had been withheld in India following a legal demand. A similar notice was seen on the accounts of its chairperson OMA Salam and general secretary Anis Ahmed.
