Coimbatore police launches investigation into viral 'Biryani Jihad' fake news
Coimbatore: Several cases have been registered against Twitter handles on Sunday after they were found circulating fake news on Twitter, that restaurants owned by Muslims were adding contraceptive pills to biryani and were doing Biryani Jihad.
As per reports, there was fake news doing rounds on the micro-blogging site that Muslims restaurants were adding contraceptive pills to biryani in order to reduce the population of Hindus. Reports on Twitter claimed that Muslim restaurant owners were arrested for allegedly offering Hindus biryani mixed with contraceptive pills, while serving regular biryani to Muslim customers.
In response to the viral posts, Coimbatore city cyber-crime police said that an FIR has been registered and a trap has been laid to trace the accused.
Meanwhile, a Twitter user posted, "Biryani jihad in Coimbatore. It is learnt that the biryani served to the Hindu pilgrims contains pills and the biryani given to Muslims is ordinary biryani. These medications affect the sexual potency of those who eat it. This jihad is being carried out to change the population."
But the fact is that no medicine of this kind will be effective, and contraceptive pills can only work when taken in specific dosages.
Such news was circulated in Sri Lanka in 2019 and in Chennai in April 2022.
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Online fraud: Hotel chef from Udupi cheated of over Rs 1 lakh by WhatsApp contact
Udupi: Udupi City Police have registered a case of online fraud after a 62-year-old hotel chef was allegedly cheated of Rs 1.13 lakh by a woman who befriended him on WhatsApp, claiming to be based in London.
The victim, identified as Pandu Kariappa Poojary, a resident of Kuthpadi in Udupi, was working at a hotel in Mangaluru.
He reportedly came into contact with a woman identifying herself as Emilda William on WhatsApp. During their interactions, she told Poojary that she planned to start a cosmetics and hotel business in India and would meet him during a visit to Mangaluru.
On April 7, Emilda sent Poojary a flight ticket from London to Delhi via WhatsApp. The following day, Poojary received a phone call from a woman who informed him that Emilda had arrived at Delhi airport carrying a demand draft worth Rs 5 crore along with other items. The caller allegedly asked him to pay Rs 70,000.
Subsequently, Poojary also received a call from Emilda, who was reportedly crying and spoke about the situation. Believing the claims, he transferred a total of Rs 1,13,300 in phases using a scanner. He later realised that he had been cheated.
