New Delhi: The Central government has given Twitter India the last ultimatum to comply with the Information Technology Rules by July 4 otherwise twitter will lose its immunity as an intermediary, sources said.

A notice was sent on Monday where the ministry pointed out that the microblogging platform failed to comply with notices sent on June 6 and June 9.

Ministry’s notice addressed to Twitter’s Chief Compliance Officer states that “if Twitter Inc. continues to be in violation of these Directions and therefore the IT Act, significant consequences under the IT Act shall prevail.”

As per the officials ” The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology’s (MeitY) action follows Twitter’s “repeated failures to act on the content take-down notices sent under Section 69 A of the IT Act” as well as on “non-compliance notices issued for not taking the content down.”

This is not the first instance wherein the IT ministry has warned Twitter of the possibility of losing its intermediary status over non-compliance with regulations under the IT Act.

In May 2021, when the IT Rules 2021 came into effect, MeitY had issued a similar warning to Twitter, asking it to appoint a resident grievance officer, a resident chief compliance officer as well as a nodal contact person or risk losing the protection granted to it under Section 79 of the IT Act. DeshGujarat