Twitter lost it legal protection in India over its failure to appoint statutory officers in line with the new IT rules, government sources have said.

The microblogging platform lost legal indemnity in India after it failed to comply with new social media rules which required it to appoint key officers in India.

Twitter did not comply with rules despite letters from the ministry, sources said, and added that no order will be issued to remove the intermediary status of the social media platform.