In a recent, Police in UP’s Meerut have filed an FIR and are trying to trace the people who have recorded and circulated a video on WhatsApp, which calls for boycotting the vendors of the minority community in colonies.
A case was filed under section 66 (computer-related offences) of the IT Act soon after the circulation of the “instigating” video asking people to “stop the entry of minority community’s vending carts by checking their identity cards, as they were spreading dirtiness amid spread of novel coronavirus”.
As per media reports, the video, which was apparently shot in Meerut’s Shastri Nagar, shows a group of people sitting outside a house and talking to each other.
The person recording the video is heard saying that the residents of Shastri Nagar have come together to ban the entry of minority community vending cart pullers inside the colony because they were spreading dirtiness.
Ashutosh Kumar, station house officer (SHO) of Nauchandi police station, said, “An FIR has been filed against unknown persons for circulating an instigating video inciting people to ban the entry of minority community vendors in their colonies. Unknown people have been booked under Section 66 of the IT Act.”
Meerut’s district magistrate Anil Dhingra said, “Action will be taken against those circulating misleading content on social media. They will be dealt as per the law.”
The investigation into the matter is underway.
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