97, including 12 elderly people, test positive for coronavirus in Dakshina Kannada
District records 3 deaths on Sunday
Mangaluru: Dakshina Kannada has registered as many as 97 new cases of Corona infection on Sunday.
This is the highest number of cases in a single day in the district, which now has had a total of 673 cases. Three people have also died on Sunday.
The number of cases is increasing steadily but the source of infection is not detected in many cases, giving rise to further fear and worry among the people on the manner of spread of the virus.
Of the positive cases found on Sunday, there have been 29 people who returned from Saudi Arabia on June 10, 21 and 22 and a 26-year-old man who returned on June 19 from Qatar. There are 21 people with influenza-like illness (ILI) and five with severe acute respiratory infection (SARI). The source of illness of 28 people has not been identified yet, but 10 positive cases are said to have had primary-level with earlier cases, two men – aged 25 and 27 years – came from Chennai on June 20, and a 30-year-old woman came from Mumbai on June 10, said Deputy Commissioner Sindhu B Rupesh.
The bulletin of the Health Department released on Sunday has said that 12 senior citizens in the district were found to be positive – men aged 78, 75, 74, 70, 68, 68, 64, 63, 62 and 60 years and women aged 65 and 60 years.
The only news of relief for the people of the district is that six people, including patients aged 70 and 67 years, were discharged from hospital post-treatment on Sunday.
So far, 422 people have recovered in the district. Most of the people under treatment are said to be in a stable condition.
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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.
