Twitter accounts of several celebrities and organisations, including actor Sushant Singh, Caravan magazine, Kisan Ekta Morcha, Tractor2twitr and other politicians, farmer leaders, writers and activists that were suspended on Monday on directions of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Meity), were restored late in the evening.
The IT ministry and law enforcement agencies had last week ordered Twitter to block these tweets and accounts under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act.
A Twitter spokesperson said that the company has taken strong enforcement action to protect the conversation on the service from attempts to incite violence, abuse and threats that could trigger the risk of offline harm by blocking certain terms that violate our rules for trend.
However, the social media platform received criticism for suspending the accounts and people from various walks of the life termed it a brazen attack om the freedom of speech.
Meanwhile, many accounts now has been restored, while few still remain suspended.