Dakshina Kannada Superintendent of Police K. Arun has said that the police uncovered five instances of spreading false and communally sensitive hate messages aimed at creating unrest in the district.
The police also found that a complaint over an attempt to murder was fake. In all, the police registered six cases and arrested the accused in some cases.
The Superintendent of Police said in a statement that some individuals, groups, and organisations posted false information on social media to create communal tension in the district. People should check authenticity of the information before sharing the same on social media. They should also ignore inflammatory social posts, which would help prevent spreading of false information, he said.
Regarding the murder of sand transporter Abdul Rahiman on May 27 in the limits of Bantwal Rural police station, the Venur police booked one Janardhan Poojary for posting false information in his Facebook post. The motive behind the murder as mentioned by Poojary in his post was wrong.
On July 5, the Puttur Town police registered a case in connection with a video of a 17-year-old boy and a girl that was circulated on social media with an intention to create communal discord. The video mentioned that the boy and the girl were from different religion, but a probe revealed that the two were from the same religion.
