Gangwar said that the video was made to deliberately impress the public with propaganda.
Patna:
Amid rumors of attacks on migrant workers from Bihar in Tamil Nadu, the Bihar Police has arrested one person, and booked several persons for spreading misleading information on social media.
ADG Police Headquarters Jitendra Singh Gangwar said that one has been arrested from Jamui district in connection with the fake video of alleged attacks on migrant workers. “Those posting and sharing rumours, will be arrested. Police is going to take strict action against them. A 10-member team is probing,” he said at a press conference today.
Four people have been named in the case. The arrested person has been identified as Aman Kumar, a resident of Jamui. Police say that they have found many such videos from his phone.
On reports of a Bihari migrant worker being hanged to death in Tamil Nadu, Mr. Gangwar clarified that the case of suicide was made to look like murder. “An old case from Tamil Nadu was shown as a man from Bihar being thrashed and hanged. There was another video which alleged that some Bihari migrants were being thrashed by the locals. The police officer said that It was found that the video was from Bihar-Jharkhand, and had nothing to do with Tamil Nadu.
Mr. Gangwar said that he has sent protection notices to Facebook, YouTube, Gmail, under which all these service providers have been instructed to save the link with them for about three months so that if someone deletes it, a thorough investigation can be done. Can go
Mr. Gangwar further said that the video was deliberately made to influence the public with propaganda, adding that the situation could have worsened because of this video. “A DSP and 4 members are currently in Tamil Nadu for investigation,” he added.
Earlier, Dainik Bhaskar editor, journalist from Patna, owner of ‘Tanveer Post’ Twitter handle Mohammad Tanveer and Shubham Shukla were booked at different police stations for spreading “false” news about attacks on migrants. laborers in tamil nadu
A state-wide panic was created among migrant workers in Tamil Nadu after several purported videos showing attacks on migrant workers circulated on social media. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday expressed concern and drew attention to purported videos of “attacks”.
However, Tamil Nadu Director General of Police Sylendra Babu issued a statement saying that the video doing the rounds on social media was “false” and “mischievous”.
“Someone in Bihar posted false and mischievous videos saying that migrant workers were attacked in Tamil Nadu. Two videos were posted. Both are false as these incidents happened earlier in Tiruppur and Coimbatore. There was a clash between two groups. One from Bihar while the other was from a clash between two local residents in Coimbatore,” the top cop said.
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