4 drowning fishermen of Malpe boat rescued
Incident occurs near Bhatkal's Netrani
Malpe: Coastal unit of Bhatkal police rescued four fishermen who were drowning after their fishing boat met with an accident in the middle of the sea on Sunday evening.
At about two nautical miles south of the island of Netrani, in the limits of Bhatkal police coastal unit,a fishing boat, Shrileela, had started to sink when a diesel tank kept on the top of the boat accidentally fell down damaging the lower portion of the boat. Following which, water started entering into the boat.
Malpe coastal unit received this information through the relatives of the onboard fishermen. Then a team of Bhatkal coastal unit police, under the guidance of Malpe coastal unit's SP R. Chetan launched an emergency operation and rescued the drowning fishermen.
Fishermen Anand Moger, Guru Kharvi, Manjunath, Ramesh Chalavadi have been successfully rescued.
Bhatkal coastal unit Inspector Nagaraj, Sub Inspector Annappamogera, Technical Staff Captain Mallappamudigoudar and Kalasi Sanjeeva Nayaka participated in the operation. Appreciating their efforts, SP Chetan has announced that the team will be rewarded with the appropriate awards.
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Gurugram Police arrest BJP Yuva Morcha member for spreading fake murder story on social media
New Delhi: Gurugram Police have arrested BJP Yuva Morcha member Hariom Mishra, for allegedly spreading a fabricated and communally sensitive story on social media about the murder of a college student in Gurugram.
Mishra who is also known as Shaurya Mishra had shared a collage of four photographs on his X handle earlier this month. He claimed that a 24-year-old college student, identified as Nikita Agarwal, had been murdered by her classmate Arif Khan in Gurugram. In the post, he alleged that the woman was blackmailed, forced into prostitution, gangraped, and eventually killed. He also claimed that Arif dumped her body in a forest. The claims were presented as being based on police sources.
The post went viral and garnering over 1.5 lakh views, and was amplified by several right-wing social media handles across X, Facebook and Instagram. A verification of the claims revealed that no such incident had taken place in Gurugram. A search of credible news reports showed no record of any such murder. The police said this news would have inevitably attracted media attention if it were true.
On December 11, Gurugram Police publicly refuted the claims through their official X handle. They stated that the information which was being circulated was completely false. The police warned that legal action would be taken against those spreading misinformation. Despite the warning, Mishra neither deleted the post nor issued any clarification.
Police in Gurugram confirmed Mishra's arrest on December 16. The police said a FIR was filed after he continued to spread false information about the alleged murder of a Hindu woman by Muslim man. Police said Mishra, a resident of Uttar Pradesh's Kaushambi district, is now being investigated.
Gurugram Police spokesperson Sandeep Singh told The Print that the accused had deliberately misrepresented facts and used objectionable content to spread hatred along religious lines. “Such posts can create serious disturbances in society, and the police take these matters very seriously,” he said.
A reverse image search conducted by fact-checkers at Alt News, revealed that the photographs used in the viral post were unrelated to the claims, while two of the images were traced to a Pinterest account belonging to influencer Maulik Chopra and another image was sourced from an Instagram post by influencer Shivam Thakur featuring a woman named Deepanshi Rawat. The fourth image was found on an unrelated Instagram page. The images depicted different individuals and had no connection to any crime.
Police said they are also investigating Mishra’s motive behind sharing the false and provocative content.
