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Man arrested for spreading communal messages through WhatsApp ahead of Bhabanipur bypoll

Man arrested for spreading communal messages through WhatsApp ahead of Bhabanipur bypoll

The Hindu
Thursday, September 23, 2021 07:57:28 AM UTC

A person was arrested from West Bengal's Birbhum district for allegedly spreading communally sensitive messages and obscene materials through WhatsApp groups, police said on Thursday.The arrest wa

A person was arrested from West Bengal's Birbhum district for allegedly spreading communally sensitive messages and obscene materials through WhatsApp groups, police said on Thursday.

The arrest was made by the Kolkata Police's Cyber Crime Cell on a complaint lodged by a resident of Kalighat, the area where lives, they said.

"In the wake of the , a number of WhatsApp groups was created. The admin of the groups, who was arrested, along with others used them to post communal messages. They also posted some obscene materials containing sexually explicit acts," a police officer said.

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