In an appalling incident, a 40-year-old man in Malegaon in Maharashtra have been arrested by Nashik rural police after a TikTok video showed him wiping his nose and licking currency notes, amid the ongoing coronavirus scare.
The accused has been identified as Sayad Jamil Babu, who had shared the video on Tik Tok with the title ‘Welcome to India Corona Virus’ and had claimed that novel virus was a divine punishment without any remedy.
According to media reports, the Cyber Crime police took note of it and traced the location from where the video was first shared after it went viral.
The Nashik rural police then arrested the accused and booked him under sections 153 for hurting sentiments and section 188 of the Indian Penal Code.
#कोरोना विषाणु बाबत मालेगाव शहरात टिक टॉेक सोशल मिडियावरुन अफवेसह आक्षेपार्ह संदेश प्रसारित करणाऱ्या ०४ आरोपींना नाशिक ग्रामीण पोलीसांनी तात्काळ केली अटक.#कोरोनावायरस#StopTheSpreadOfCorona#StoptheRumors pic.twitter.com/jFG11hHj8G
— NASHIK RURAL POLICE (@SPNashikRural) April 2, 2020
Meanwhile, the police have also arrested three others, all aged between 23-27 years, from Malegaon. The accused have been identified as Abdul Qureshi (27), Sayad Hussain Ali (23) and Sufiyan Mukhtar (24).
A case has been registered against all the four accused in Azad Nagar Police Station in Nashik.
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