Cops, pregnant woman among 23 new cases of Corona in Udupi district on Sunday
Udupi, May 24: The district recorded as many as 23 cases of Corona infection on Sunday, including three police staff members and a pregnant woman, said Dr Sudhirchandra Sood, District Health and Family Welfare Officer.
Udupi district, which had been in the 16th position in the state with 53 Corona cases, is now in the 12th position, with a total of 76 cases of infection. It is, therefore, ahead of the neighbouring districts Dakshina Kannada, which is in the 16th position, and Uttara Kannada, which is in the 17th position in the state.
Of the 23 cases identified on Sunday, 17 cases are of people who came from different parts of Maharashtra, one is of a youngster from Telangana and another is of a 44-year-old woman who returned from the United Arab Emirates. The three police staff are the constables from Brahmavar and Karkala rural stations and assistant sub-inspector of the Ajekaru station. The pregnant woman who tested positive is a 22-year-old from Karkala.
Also, 11 of the infected persons are men, eight are women and four are children below 10 years of age. As many as 19 cases are of people who have come to Udupi district from other states and districts, while the remaining four are residents of the district.
The three police staff members who tested positive are 51, 41 and 29 years old and have been admitted into the Dr TMA Pai Covid Hospital in town. The Ajekaru, Karkala rural and Brahmavar police stations have been temporarily closed and will be sanitised as per the government guidelines. The stations will be opened only 48 hours later. In addition, people who had come to close contact with the three police staff are being identified. The district superintendent is taking additional care about the matter, Deputy Commissioner G Jagadeesh has said.
The major case on Sunday being that of the pregnant woman from Karkala taluk, the government officials are investigating the cause for the infection, including the people she met. The district administration will ensure the women gets additional care as she is expecting delivery within about a fortnight, said the deputy commissioner.
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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.
