Bihar police on run to catch the mastermind of Tamil Nadu migrant worker’s row

The Economic Offence Unit is continuously conducting raids at all possible locations in Bihar and other states of North India to catch the mastermind.

Patna

Economic Offence Unit (EOU) of Bihar police has tightened the noose to catch the mastermind Manish Kashyap who created the panic by spreading fake videos on social media about Bihari migrants being allegedly attacked in Tamil Nadu.

EOU is continuously conducting raids at all possible locations in Bihar and other states of North India to catch the mastermind. The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) opposition in Bihar has made it a big issue by portraying Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Prasad Yadav as anti-Bihari alleging that when the migrants’ workers were being beaten up in Tamil Nadu, the RJD leader Tejashwi was cutting the cake of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on his birthday.

There was a big uproar over the issue in the ongoing budget session of Bihar assembly and opposition had walked out from the house when speaker Awadh Bihari Choudhary had rejected their demand of special debate on the issue.

After investigation by EOU, it has come to the fore that most of the videos circulated on social media were fabricated and fake. In fact, one of the videos in which Bihari migrants were shown with injury on the forehead was shot in Bengali Colony of Jakkanpur locality in Patna. The shooting of the video took place on March 6 and posted on social media on March 8. 

The fake video had created panic among the Bihari migrant workers in Tamil Nadu and many of them had started returning to Bihar leaving their work in the southern state.

While speaking to The Hindu, EOU’s superintendent of police Sushil Kumar said, “Investigation is underway in all the cases we have registered the FIRs. We are trying to catch those elements who have played the role of larger conspirator and Manish Kashyap is the mastermind in this case. Apart from it we have also identified 26 other links which were posted on social media. We will ask them as well and ask why they posted such videos on their social media account. If any one of them would be found doing it intentionally they too would be booked. Altogether three cases have been lodged in which nine people have been booked. However, one person is Manish Kashyap, his name is there in all three cases. So far, three have been arrested.”