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In a bid to reduce the spread of fake news in India and stop the mob lynching happening in India at an alarming rate the government have begun a massive clampdown on spread of fake news on social media including whatsapp. This crackdown by the Indian police has already seen a 21 year old student who has already spent 5 months in jail for being the admin of a Whatsapp group in India for spreading what the police called “objectionable content”. It can be recalled that fake whatsapp messages has led to the lynching of many people in India for suspicions of child kidnapping and other reasons.

Junaid Khan a student from the town of Talen in India’s central Madhya Pradesh state was arrested on February 14th following a complaint filed at the police station by some locals based on charges stem from a message that was forwarded in a WhatsApp group of which he was the Admin, leading to him (the group admin) being arrested.



Police allege the man was the administrator of the WhatsApp group but his family argued he was made a “default admin” of the group only after the the original administrators had fled the group. However,police say they took action based on the evidence they have seen. Police say Junaid was the WhatsApp group administrator when the case came to their notice. His family says otherwise. “Junaid was a member of the group, but not the admin when the post was already shared, he was made the admin after the post has already circulated and the real admins fled the group”.



He could not write his exams as the court already denied him bail and he has already spent the last 5 months in jail. Police says it has commenced investigation if there were indeed other admins in the group who left.

SOURCE:https://techcapon.com/whatsapp-group-admin-lands-in-jail-for-spreading-fake-news/

FTC, momma i made it

Lobatan

not a good one at all

I need to send this to Sis Hanna (RCCG Area 27 Province 18 Lagos). She spread fake news pass Naija bloggers!

Nice move

GOOD DEVELOPMENT.
A good beginning.
Hope they will learn from this.

Soon them go land in Jail for here ...stupid people sha

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Spreading fake info will land you in jail

Police says it has commenced investigation if there were indeed other admins in the group who left.


News Flash !!!

Whatsapp can land you in Jail!!

I wonder when we'll start doing this so Omojuwa and his minions can taste Kirikiri.

Nice

wow

Its now dangerous to be a whatsapp admin oh

Whatsapp?!!
Abeg someone should help me with that Ahmed Musa pic

IPOB beware

Good for him

Ooooooooh

In a bid to reduce the spread of fake news in India and stop the mob lynching happening in India at an alarming rate the government have begun a massive clampdown on spread of fake news on social media including whatsapp. This crackdown by the Indian police has already seen a 21 year old student who has already spent 5 months in jail for being the admin of a Whatsapp group in India for spreading what the police called “objectionable content”. It can be recalled that fake whatsapp messages has led to the lynching of many people in India for suspicions of child kidnapping and other reasons.

If it is Nigeria, wailers will not let us rest

Person no fit be admin in peace again?

OboOlora:
I need to send this to Sis Hanna (RCCG Area 27 Province 18 Lagos). She spread fake news pass Naija bloggers!

Your user name tells whom you are. Iranse Satan.

If only this can happen in Nigeria.

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OboOlora:
I need to send this to Sis Hanna (RCCG Area 27 Province 18 Lagos). She spread fake news pass Naija bloggers!

And you just had to include the Province

OboOlora:
I need to send this to Sis Hanna (RCCG Area 27 Province 18 Lagos). She spread fake news pass Naija bloggers!

This might even be a fake news

Read about dis sm days back and its a serious concern. Whatsapp was almost banned in india cos of it.

To be admin now don become something else

If the arrest was made in Naija, we will be hearing that Buhari is a tyrant that stops freedom of expression

this is what nairaland needs with those yeye bloggers

I hope when it starts in Nigeria, Igbos and pdps who are found of dishing out fake news and misinforming people won’t be shouting tyranny and witch hunting upandan.