Twitter India Public Policy Director Mahima Kaul resigns

Twitter Public Policy Vice President Monique Meche said, "At the start of this year, Mahima Kaul decided to step down from her role...to take a well-deserved break."

Meche said, "It's a loss for all of us at Twitter, but after more than five years in the role we respect her desire to focus on the most important people and relationships in her personal life."

The development comes at a time when Twitter has been under the Indian government's scanner for violations of the law.

The government has said that Twitter violated Indian law for not taking down tweets talking about the "farmers' genocide."

Sources confirmed to India Today that Kaul's resignation is unrelated to the recent friction between India and the microblogging website.

Last week, India had sent a strongly-worded letter to Twitter for "unilaterally" deciding to unblock around 250 accounts that the government said were using an objectionable hashtag over the ongoing farmers' protest.

Twitter, on the other hand, said that it had temporarily withheld the accounts while it reviewed the situation and later unblocked them as it felt they constituted "free speech" and were "newsworthy."