HANSI/JIND/GURUGRAM: An AAP leader and a pupil wing leader of INLD have been arrested within the state for allegedly spreading fake news attributed to Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar. The arrests have been made on Friday and Saturday.
It was all the way through the recent MC elections held within the state that news had seemed in media quoting Khattar as pronouncing that the Punjabi group will have to strengthen BJP mayoral applicants as he was additionally from the similar group. However, the CM had denied making such an enchantment to voters and the state election fee had ordered probe into some posters at the factor being post in Khattar’s constituency Karnal.
On Saturday, Hansi police arrested Harpal Kranti, incharge of IT cell of Hisar AAP unit, for his alleged role in creating and sharing a pretend submit with the CM’s submit and BJP’s lotus symbol. Police additionally rounded up AAP’s another leader Anoop Chanot with Kranti however he was launched after interrogation. After getting information, party staff started protesting in entrance of Hansi Sadar police station.
Hansi SP Virender Viz said that Sadar Hansi police station has registered a case below sections 153 (provocation with intent to purpose rebel), 153-A (promoting enmity between different teams on grounds of religion, race, hometown, and doing acts prejudicial to upkeep of solidarity) of the IPC, and phase 66 of the IT Act in opposition to Kranti of Cannot village of Hansi at the criticism of BJP leader Rajesh Thakral.
In his criticism to the police, Thakral said that on December 28 party staff knowledgeable him that a false news in opposition to Khattar had gone viral. Following this, he checked the social media and suspected Kranti’s role in it.
When AAP supporters were given information about the arrest, they accrued at Hansi Sadar police station and raised slogans in opposition to the police administration and chief minister. Addressing the dharna, AAP leader said that the BJP government was petrified of AAP’s recognition and was deliberately torturing party staff. Someone from Gurgaon had made the submit viral and there was no role of his party, native AAP leader AAP leader Vikrant Goyat said. He said that if the police didn't unlock their leader, they might get started an agitation around the state.
Earlier on Friday, the IT cell of the BJP had filed a police criticism in opposition to a member of Indian National Students Organisation (the coed wing of the INLD) and others for allegedly spreading fake news attributed to Haryana chief minister.
Following the criticism, Gurgaon police had arrested INSO vice-president Sanjeev Jakhar from Jind’s Fuliya Kalan village of Narwana town. Jakhar is claimed to be an lively party member now with MP Hisar Dushyant Chautala, who has damaged clear of INLD. An FIR was registered below at cyber crime police station past due on Friday, the police said.
Head of BJP’s state IT cell Arun Yadav said, “I saw this news item while scouting the social media as a part of my job and was surprised to search out it,” reads the criticism. “This piece of news can spark a major row between communities and create social rigidity. This needs to be handled critically,” added Yadav.
On the other hand, Haryana AAP president Naveen Jaihind alleged, “It’s now not a democracy, however jungle rule. BJP had given an advertisement that for the first time the state had were given a Punjabi chief minister and the chance will have to now not be squandered. The AAP staff most effective put the submit on social media.”
Responding to the happenings in Haryana, Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal tweeted in Hindi, “What more or less dictatorship is that this? On Friday evening 70 youths have been detained for calling Khattar a CM of Punjabis.”
(With inputs from agencies)
It was all the way through the recent MC elections held within the state that news had seemed in media quoting Khattar as pronouncing that the Punjabi group will have to strengthen BJP mayoral applicants as he was additionally from the similar group. However, the CM had denied making such an enchantment to voters and the state election fee had ordered probe into some posters at the factor being post in Khattar’s constituency Karnal.
On Saturday, Hansi police arrested Harpal Kranti, incharge of IT cell of Hisar AAP unit, for his alleged role in creating and sharing a pretend submit with the CM’s submit and BJP’s lotus symbol. Police additionally rounded up AAP’s another leader Anoop Chanot with Kranti however he was launched after interrogation. After getting information, party staff started protesting in entrance of Hansi Sadar police station.
Hansi SP Virender Viz said that Sadar Hansi police station has registered a case below sections 153 (provocation with intent to purpose rebel), 153-A (promoting enmity between different teams on grounds of religion, race, hometown, and doing acts prejudicial to upkeep of solidarity) of the IPC, and phase 66 of the IT Act in opposition to Kranti of Cannot village of Hansi at the criticism of BJP leader Rajesh Thakral.
In his criticism to the police, Thakral said that on December 28 party staff knowledgeable him that a false news in opposition to Khattar had gone viral. Following this, he checked the social media and suspected Kranti’s role in it.
When AAP supporters were given information about the arrest, they accrued at Hansi Sadar police station and raised slogans in opposition to the police administration and chief minister. Addressing the dharna, AAP leader said that the BJP government was petrified of AAP’s recognition and was deliberately torturing party staff. Someone from Gurgaon had made the submit viral and there was no role of his party, native AAP leader AAP leader Vikrant Goyat said. He said that if the police didn't unlock their leader, they might get started an agitation around the state.
Earlier on Friday, the IT cell of the BJP had filed a police criticism in opposition to a member of Indian National Students Organisation (the coed wing of the INLD) and others for allegedly spreading fake news attributed to Haryana chief minister.
Following the criticism, Gurgaon police had arrested INSO vice-president Sanjeev Jakhar from Jind’s Fuliya Kalan village of Narwana town. Jakhar is claimed to be an lively party member now with MP Hisar Dushyant Chautala, who has damaged clear of INLD. An FIR was registered below at cyber crime police station past due on Friday, the police said.
Head of BJP’s state IT cell Arun Yadav said, “I saw this news item while scouting the social media as a part of my job and was surprised to search out it,” reads the criticism. “This piece of news can spark a major row between communities and create social rigidity. This needs to be handled critically,” added Yadav.
On the other hand, Haryana AAP president Naveen Jaihind alleged, “It’s now not a democracy, however jungle rule. BJP had given an advertisement that for the first time the state had were given a Punjabi chief minister and the chance will have to now not be squandered. The AAP staff most effective put the submit on social media.”
Responding to the happenings in Haryana, Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal tweeted in Hindi, “What more or less dictatorship is that this? On Friday evening 70 youths have been detained for calling Khattar a CM of Punjabis.”
(With inputs from agencies)
Action against AAP, INLD leaders for ‘Manohar Lal Khattar Punjabi CM’ fake news
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