Case Filed In opposition to Ex-IAS Officer For Spreading Incorrect information: UP Police
Police stated the case towards the officer was once lodged on Would possibly 13 (Representational)
Unnao:
A former IAS officer has been booked for allegedly spreading incorrect information by means of tweeting a seven-year-old {photograph} of useless our bodies floating within the Ganga in Unnao and claiming them to be contemporary ones noticed within the river in Ballia, police stated on Saturday.
In an FIR lodged on the Unnao Kotwali police station, the 1982-batch, UP-cadre officer Surya Pratap Singh has additionally been accused of saying on social media that 67 bodes had been buried at the Unnao riverbank the use of JCB and with out appearing any ultimate rites.
Kotwali police station’s SHO Dinesh Chandra Mishra stated the case towards Singh was once lodged on Would possibly 13 on court cases by means of a number of town citizens.
The previous outspoken officer were booked on Would possibly 13 after he tweeted the image of floating our bodies and wrote in Hindi, “Tairati laashon aur ukharhtee saanso kaa UP style (The UP style of floating our bodies and gasping breaths).”
SHO Mishra stated the case towards Singh has been booked underneath quite a lot of sections of the Indian Penal Code, the Data Generation Act, the Crisis Control Act and the UP Public Well being and Epidemic Sicknesses Keep watch over Ordinance, 2020.
Quoting from the FIR lodged towards the previous IAS officer, Mishra stated the case towards Singh was once registered at the criticism by means of quite a lot of Unnao citizens.
He stated the citizens additionally accused Singh of falsely claiming on social media that 67 our bodies had been buried at the riverbank the use of JCB and with out appearing their ultimate rites, in an insult to the Hindu faith.
The SHO stated the folks additionally accused the previous IAS officer of looking at on social media that it was once the Yogi style of the governance in Uttar Pradesh the place the residing ones fail to get the remedy and the useless ones their ultimate rites.
“Because of this tweet, the ambience of the district was aggravating. Within the probe, the tweet was once discovered to be deceptive with previous footage of Unnao related to Ballia,” Mishra stated.
In regards to the authenticity of the floating our bodies tweeted by means of Singh, Mishra stated on being contacted, the Social Media Mobile of the Unnao Police discovered that the {photograph} tweeted by means of Singh dated again to January 13, 2014, during which round 100 our bodies had been observed floating at the Ganga in Unnao’s Pariyar Ghat.
Mishra stated the IAS officer, by means of tweeting an previous image of useless our bodies floating within the Ganga in Unnao and claiming them to be the ones noticed in Ballia, has intentionally created a sense of animosity amongst folks belonging to other religions.
Reacting to the registration of the prison case towards him, Singh, in a contemporary tweet requested, “Have been no our bodies floating in Unnao? Will the reality alternate after registering a case towards me?”
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