A top Facebook executive in India has filed a police complaint in New Delhi saying she is receiving death threats following a media report that said she and the US social network company allegedly favoured Narendra Modi’s ruling party.

Axar.az reports that, ankhi Das, Facebook’s top public-policy executive in India, in her complaint to Delhi police, said some individuals online had “intentionally vilified” her due to their political affiliations and were engaging in abuse, Indian media reported.

Ms Das has said the threats followed a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) report last week that said she opposed applying Facebook’s hate-speech rules to a member of Mr Modi’s party and some other Hindu nationalist individuals and groups “flagged internally for promoting or participating in violence”.

“I am extremely disturbed by the relentless harassment meted out to me,” Ms Das said in her complaint, according to India’s Hindu newspaper.

A spokesman for the Delhi Police did not respond to calls and text messages from Reuters.