Double hoax: Takedown notices from RSS, Delhi Police to digital rights groups turn out to be fake
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This week, legal notices to digital rights groups Internet Freedom Foundation and Software Freedom Law Centre sparked an online storm, raising concerns over growing internet censorship in India.
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But the notices appear to be part of an elaborate hoax that seems to have swept in not just the digital rights groups and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, but even the Delhi Police.
The controversy began on October 30 when the digital rights groups went public with purported legal notices they had received in the name of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, the ideological parent of ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, asking them to stop documenting and opposing the government’s content restriction orders.
The RSS has not officially commented on the notices but Kanchan Gupta, an advisor to the information and broadcasting ministry, and Ratan Sharda, an author who is a member of RSS, were quick to deny on the social media platform X that the organisation had sent any such notices.
The digital rights groups then received communication from X, informing them that Delhi Police had sent an “illegal content report” asking for their posts and accounts to be taken down since they were defamatory of the RSS.
However, not only is the notice sent in the name of the RSS fake, a...