Dakshina Kannada Police Crack Down on Fake, Communal Social Media Posts

Police Inspector Dr. Arun K said that the abuse of online platforms to wandering the half facts and stories produced has become a serious difficulty for the law and order. Investigations have shown that many complaints and viral tasks, which initially foreseen as social events, were actually produced or distorted. Cases against both individuals and organizers, including educated people, were recorded.

In connection with the Murder of Abdul Rahiman, a Facebook post called the victim from an illegal incident, claiming that he had society support for the defendant. Police confirmed that the task was wrong and made a creative reservation under the relevant BNS sections at the Venur police station.

In another case, Umar Farooq from Nandavara claimed that two men attacked him with a sword. The police then found the complaint to be produced by registering a lawsuit against him.

There were also attempts to socially introduce unrelated events. False behavior complaints in Panemangalore were circulated in fake common tones, but the researchers confirmed that the criminal was a child of the same community. Similarly, a viral video of a boy and girl harassed in Puttur was in partnership, but all of them belonged to the same community.

On July 14, after being found with a sword near the Bolwar Mosque, a man was reserved within the scope of the Law of Weapons in Puttur. Following this, Ashraf Bavu’nun, the man trying to storm the mosque, the messages, Hindutva’nın hate speech as an effect on the messages. Police said the task was designed to provoke social hostility.

SP Arun, “the region, fake or provocative content by repeating attempts to disrupt peace. Such actions misled the people, the communities provoked and damaged the reputation of the region,” he said. The authority called for citizens to verify the content before sharing, and applied to the media to play a proactive role in revealing the people behind such false information.