India, Nov. 11 -- Delhi Police's Crime Branch has registered an FIR against unidentified persons for allegedly impersonating the force and forging a senior officer's signature to send fake notices to X, seeking the blocking of accounts run by two digital rights organisations, officials said. The matter reportedly surfaced during a hearing in the Delhi High Court.

X told the court on November 6 that an internal investigation had found the notices, purportedly issued in the police's name, to be forged, and that it had neither taken down nor blocked the accounts. "It turns out that it was somebody playing imposter," counsel for the platform, Ankit Parhar, submitted before Justice Amit Mahajan. The court subsequently disposed of petitions fi...