BHUBANESWAR: Odisha Police on Monday arrested a person who, along with other associates, was found engaged in promoting communal violence and religious hatred in a video doing rounds on social media platforms.
Based on the complaint lodged by one Radha Madhav Das on October 9, the accused, Arshad Ali, 19, was nabbed by the Commissionerate Police from the Biridi Police Station area of Jagatsinghpur district on Sunday night.
Das, in his complaint, drew the attention of the Commissionerate Police towards a video published and circulated on a popular social media platform, Instagram, containing false, baseless, provocative, hate-speech content.
He also expressed the apprehension that the video might provoke communal violence as it promotes communal hatred by insulting Hindu sentiments and issuing violent threats.