Assam govt lodges FIR, to trace culprit

LUCKNOW: Assam police has registered a case against unknown people for a fake Facebook post using the name of chief minister Yogi Adityanath. The case was registered in Panbajar district of Assam after UP government contacted Assam government and clarified that the Facebook post with the name of Adityanath was fake and bogus.

Official sources said the state government made contact with social networking site following which the post was deleted from the fake account. “An IG of Assam police informed us that a case has been registered and efforts are on arrest the culprits,” said a UP government release.

On June 18, Hindustan Times had reported how the Adivasi community in Assam had expressed its anger by burning the effigies of UP CM after a 10-year-old photo of a stripped woman surfaced from a Facebook account bearing the name of UP CM. The fake account in the name of Adityanath had close to 95,000 followers. The post showed men chasing and kicking a woman who was stripped.

The post had a text in Hindi saying two pictures were of Congress workers of West Bengal which was targeting a Hindu woman. This is the third such incident in which UP CM’s name and picture has been used by mischief mongers to post derogatory content to incite passions.

On May 15, Ghaziabad police had arrested Munazir, a man who allegedly made a fake Facebook account and posted derogatory content about the UP CM. Another person was arrested from Sambhal.

An IG of Assam police informed us that a case has been registered and efforts are on to arrest culprits OFFICIAL, UP government