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Coronavirus: Four detained for forwarding misleading WhatsApp post in Kolhapur

Coronavirus: Four detained for forwarding misleading WhatsApp post in Kolhapur

| @indiablooms | 19 Mar 2020, 08:59 am

Kolhapur/UNI: Four persons have been detained for allegedly spreading rumour on WhatsApp regarding the COVID-19 cases, police said here on Thursday.

According to the Shivajinagar Police, the detainees are the members of a WhatsApp group, in which, a post was forwarded saying that two couples have been shifted from the IGM Hospital to the Chhatrapati Pramila Raje Hospital after getting infected from the disease.

As the post's claim was untrue, Talathi Swapnil Samlatbapu Ghatge from Hatkanangale tehsil filed a police complaint.

Subsequently, the four were booked under the IPC section 158 (being hired to take part in an unlawful assembly or riot) as well as The Disaster Management Act.

The police is tracing the post sender.

The administration has appealed to follow health tips given by the government, and avoid falling to rumours or spreading them.

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