A man was arrested from Bihar’s Jamui district on Monday for sharing on social media fake videos of alleged attacks on migrant workers from the state in Tamil Nadu.
He said in a statement that the Economic Offenses Unit (EOU) of the Bihar Police has registered a case against four people in connection with the case.
The people named in the case have been identified as Aman Kumar, Rakesh Tiwari, Yuvraj Singh Rajput and Manish Kashyap. Police said that Aman Kumar, a resident of Laxmipur in Jamui district, was arrested while the rest were being traced.
“An investigation by the EOU revealed that the accused were involved in circulating fake videos of migrants being killed and thrashed in Tamil Nadu on social media,” the statement said.
Thirty such videos were widely shared on social media, prompting migrant workers from Bihar to flee to Tamil Nadu in panic, police said.
He said notices have been sent to service providers to preserve 42 such videos – nine on Facebook, 15 each on Twitter and YouTube and three on Gmail – for further investigation.
Police said, “A 10-member team of EOU is analyzing these videos.
The Bihar government has sent a four-member team of top officials to Tamil Nadu to coordinate with the authorities probing the case.
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