By PTI
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: In view of the latest back-to-back murders of two political activists within the state, Kerala DGP Anil Kant on Friday directed district police chiefs to take stringent motion towards these spreading faux information and false message by means of social media and the admins of such platforms who enable dialogue on them.
It has been observed that a number of messages, inciting communal hatred, are being circulated by means of social media after the murders of the BJP functionary Ranjith Sreenivas and SDPI’s Ok S Shan earlier this week, Kant mentioned right here in an announcement.
“The admins of social media groups who permit discussions (inciting communal hatred) will be booked. The cyber wing of the state police has been asked to intensify its surveillance in all districts to check such propaganda,” he mentioned.
Not simply these straight concerned within the murders, but additionally its perpetrators, these supplied them weapons, telephones and logistics assist could be nabbed on the earliest, he mentioned, including that motion could be taken to search out the supply of cash of prison gangs.
The DGP additionally directed to arrange an inventory of criminals and history-sheeters belonging to each teams on a district-level foundation, arrest absconding criminals and in addition be sure that these launched on bail should not violating the bail situations.
Police on Thursday made it clear that as many as 30 circumstances had been registered throughout the state within the final 5 days towards some individuals for spreading provocative messages by means of social media platforms in a fashion that incites communal hatred.
One individual was arrested in a case registered by the West Police in Kollam district on this regard, an official assertion mentioned.
Shan, the state secretary of SDPI, was killed by a gang on Saturday evening whereas he was on his means residence in Alappuzha, whereas the BJP OBC Morcha state secretary Sreenivas was hacked to dying in entrance of his household by some assailants in his home on Sunday morning in the identical district.
