Hyderabad police face Twitterati wrath, forced to unblock activist's account

Unable to deal with the wrath of the Twitter users, the Hyderabad police were forced to unblock an account on Twitter of activist Vijay Gopal.

The activist, who led the campaign against parking fee collection by commercial complexes in violation of rules got blocked by the police on Twitter as he was regularly tagging them in instances of malls and multiplex theatres in the city violated the law.

However, Gopal reached out to his followers regarding the same following which there were several tweets demanding the police to unblock him. Tweet:

@hydcitypolice blocked me, I suppose I have been making too many complaints about parking lol...!! Sorry @hydcitypolice I couldn't help but Complaint n I will continue to Complaint against atrocities n corruption in our society, u don't like it!? I don't care. More to come. JHind pic.twitter.com/nHRGOANUoE

— VijayGopal (@VijayGopal_) May 29, 2018

This is not fair, unblock the id immediately. @KTRTRS @TelanganaDGP

— Srikanth Raj (@SrikanthRaj1) May 29, 2018

Eventually, the Hyderabad Police unblocked Gopal and left him a tweet addressing him as Dear Citizen. Tweet:

We regret for inconvenience, we answered ur issues earlier, vth all status-updates available vth us or vich we tracked on behalf of u dear citizen -regarding the issues which u reported us.
We tried our level best to attend,address,answer.
-We really appreciate your efforts too.

— hyderabadpolice (@hydcitypolice) May 30, 2018