By TwoCircle.net Staff Reporter,
Mumbai: The state police appear to have a breakthrough in unearthing the source of spreading of derogatory images which are causing communal tension in the state. They have arrested three persons for allegedly posting objectionable material and pictures about a religion on a social networking site Facebook and a popular messaging platform WhatsApp.
The police arrested two accused from Aurangabad city in two different cases of uploading of derogatory images on internet. Santosh Yadav (37) and Sainath Yadav (21) were apprehended on Saturday after they allegedly uploaded the objectionable material about a religion on Facebook which then got circulated on WhatsApp, a messaging application, said Salim Shaikh, senior inspector at Jawaharnagar Police Station here.
Photo for depiction purpose [Courtesy: shahernama.com]
An FIR was registered in this case on Thursday, the day when the posts came to light, Shaikh said adding, and the offensive material on Facebook had led to tension in this communally-sensitive city in central Maharashtra.
In the second case, City Chowk police arrested a 24-year-old man, Amit Chavaria, for posting an allegedly objectionable image related to a particular community in a WhatsApp group.
“Chavaria was arrested on June 3. He posted the offensive picture on June 1 and the same day an FIR was registered,” police added.
The arrest come after the issuance of strong orders by the state HM R R Patil of not sparing any person who spreads hatred in the society due to the killing of innocent IT man Mohsin Shaikh in Pune at the hands of members of Hindu Rashtra Sena.
Malegaon
Holy KABA in Makka
It is only a week that sporadic violence erupted in Maharashtra due to the uploading of derogatory images of Chatrapati Shivaji and Balasaheb Thakarey on Facebook and fresh cases of uploading of offensive morphed images of Muslims holy structure ‘Kaba’ has come to the fore. Two FIRs have been registered in Malegaon city of Maharashtra in connection with the uploading of such images on social networking site Facebook.
Yesterday night, a number of Muslims had gathered before Ayesha Nagar and Azad Nagar police station to register complaint against the circulation of derogatory images of ‘Kaba’ on WhatsAp and Facebook.
Two different FIRs were registered in this connection in Ayesha Nagar and Azad Nagar police stations of Malegaon under the sections of 295 (A) of IPC and 66 IT Act. Police are investigating the source of creation and uploading of these images.