Twitter's interim grievance officer for India steps down: Report

New Delhi: Twitter's interim resident grievance officer for India, Dharmendra Chatur has stepped down within days after his appointment as per the new IT guidelines, sources said.

On the website of the US-headquartered micro-blogging platform, the grievance officer contact information for users in India is listed as Jeremy Kessel, who is based out of San Francisco, US.

However, Twitter declined to comment on the matter.

The development comes at a time when the micro-blogging platform is already under pressure to comply with the new norms and has faced severe criticism from the government along with warnings of legal proceedings.

Earlier on Friday, just after Union Electronics and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad was denied access to his Twitter account for almost an hour on Friday over alleged violation of the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

Although he was subsequently allowed to access the account, taking to India-made micro-blogging platform Koo, the minister called the action by the US-headquartered Twitter as "a gross violation of the IT guidelines".

Earlier he had come down hard on the company over non-compliance to the new norms.