Man arrested for spreading hate speech in social media in Odisha

The Bhubaneswar Police has arrested a 19-year-old Muslim teenager for allegedly spreading communal hatred through social media, a senior officer said on Monday.

The cyber crime police arrested the accused, identified as Arshad Alli (19), on Sunday night in connection with a case registered on the basis of a written complaint lodged by an individual on October 9 this year, the police said.

In his written report to the police, the



complainant alleged that one video was uploaded and circulated on social media containing false, baseless, provocative, hate-speech content, and the said posting may provoke violence, and it is promoting communal hatred while insulting Hindu sentiments and issuing violent threats.

The illegal act of the persons in the video was live-streamed on social media, where four individuals were having a video chat with each other, the complaint alleged.