Hyderabad, Feb. 21 -- Citing "ethical concerns, the Ministry of Railways, on Friday, February 21, issued a notice to X (formerly Twitter) to take down 285 social media links containing videos depicting the casualties from the February 15 stampede at the New Delhi railway station.

The move comes after the Indian Railways, on December 24 last year, was empowered to issue takedown notices directly to the social media platforms through the executive director of information and publicity of the Railway board. Previously such requests had to be routed through the blocking committee of the IT ministry under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act stated the Hindustan Times reported.

As per Section 79(3)(b) of the Information Technology A...