The FIR was registered on August 3 under IPC sections 153, 153A, 295A, 298, 504, 109, 292, and 11C at Cyber Crime police station, police said.
Nuh Police have arrested a 44-year-old man from Meoli village in connection with social media posts related to the July 31 violence, officers said, making it the second such arrest.
According to police, Shahid posted videos and screenshots on Facebook and he was arrested under charges of promoting enmity between groups. The arrest was made after the Nuh cybercrime officers came across his account while monitoring posts on social media sites.
“During my online activities on Facebook, I found that a Facebook account with the profile name Shahi and the URL concealed its true identity online. On July 31, during the jala abhishek yatra, this account incited (violence) among various groups based on religious beliefs, spread indecent content, used abusive language, or offended religious sentiments, and disrupted public peace through various Facebook posts and videos dated July 31,” said the FIR filed on the complaint of ASI Suresh Kumar.
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The posts the police mentioned in the FIR were found taken down from Facebook.
The FIR was registered on August 3 under IPC sections 153, 153A, 295A, 298, 504, 109, 292, and 11C at Cyber Crime police station, police said.
Police said he had 8,000 followers.
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Meanwhile, Congress leaders, including Nuh MLA Aftab Ahmed and Punhana MLA Mohammad Ilyas held a press conference at the district Congress headquarters in Nuh.
Ahmed said that instead of levelling baseless allegations against MLA Mamman Khan and Congress, the state government should conduct a thorough investigation under the supervision of a High Court judge.
MLA Aftab Ahmed questioned the state government, asking why the District Magistrate and the police chief were on leave on the day of violence, despite prior intelligence, an adequate number of police forces were not deployed, how innocent people were arrested, and on whose orders the police were involved in financial transactions. He also questioned why bulldozers were operated only in Nuh among the violence-affected districts.
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First published on: 05-09-2023 at 08:50 IST