Bhubaneswar, Oct 13 || Odisha Police on Monday arrested a person who, along with other associates, was found engaged in promoting communal violence and religious hatred in a video doing rounds on social media platforms.
Based on the complaint lodged by one Radha Madhav Das on October 9, the accused, Arshad Ali,19, was nabbed by the Commissionerate Police from the Biridi Police Station area of Jagatsinghpur district on Sunday night.
Das, in his complaint, drew the attention of the Commissionerate Police towards a video published and circulated on a popular social media platform, Instagram, containing false, baseless, provocative, hate-speech content.
He also expressed the apprehension that the video might provoke communal violence as it promotes communal hatred by insulting Hindu sentiments and issuing violent threats.
“The illegal act of the persons in the video was live-streamed on social media, where four individuals were having a video chat with each other. Their video chat promoted hatred on the grounds of religion.
“It also insulted the religion or the religious beliefs. The said persons also promoted communal violence and were discussing the recent riot incident in Cuttack City,” informed the police in a statement on Monday.