The Uttar Pradesh government has filed an FIR against Twitter, a few journalists and two Congress leaders in connection with an incident in Ghaziabad's Loni where an elderly Muslim man was allegedly assaulted. The FIR, which has been filed against The Wire, Rana Ayyub, Mohammad Zubair, Dr Shama Mohammed, Saba Naqvi, Maskoor Usmani, and Salman Nizami, alleges that the video was shared with an intention to provoke communal unrest.