If you can summon Zuckerberg, minister, why not Nirav Modi?

Twitter users on Wednesday mercilessly trolled Union Law and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad for his warning to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg that the Indian IT Act is so stringent that he can be summoned to India. ANI News quoted Ravi Shankar Prasad as saying "Mr. Mark Zuckerberg you better know the observation of IT Minister of India, if any data theft of Indians is done with the collusion of FB systems, it will not be tolerated. We have got stringent powers in the IT Act including summoning you in India .”

Prasad’s statements came on a day when BJP and Congress are trading accusations that the other used controversial data firm Cambridge Analytica for ‘election management’ in India. Cambridge Analytica was last week accused of unauthorisedly harvesting information from tens of millions of Facebook profiles in a major breach of user’s privacy.

Twitter users responded to the Law and IT Minister with typical mockery and sarcasm, pertinently asking why he had not issued a similar threat of summons to fugitive jewellers Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi. The Congress called him ‘Lawless’ minister.

Here are a sample of Twitter reactions: