The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has ordered Wikipedia to remove the link showing the wrong map of Jammu and Kashmir. According to the news agency ANI, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has issued an order to Wikipedia citing Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, 2000.
The government has been directed to remove the link from Wikipedia which shows the wrong map of Jammu and Kashmir (Wrong map of Jammu and Kashmir). Actually, this case was exposed by a Twitter user, on which the Ministry acted
However, this is not the first time that the Indian government has shown strictness on showing the wrong map of India on any platform. Earlier Twitter showed Leh as part of the People’s Republic of China (China), after which the Secretary of the Ministry of Information Technology wrote a letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey objecting to it. After this, Twitter had apologized in writing in front of the parliamentary panel.
