Cases have been registered against 25 individuals in Tamil Nadu for social media posts related to the Karur tragedy. The police stated the reason for this action was to prevent the disruption of peace.
00:00And cases have been registered against 25 individuals for social media posts.
00:06The police have said that the reason these people have been booked is because they disrupted peace in Karoor during the tragedy.
00:13This comes even as Chief Minister Stalin today, while in fact issuing a video statement, urged people to avoid spreading misinformation,
00:23urged people to avoid spreading fake news on the Karoor stampede.
00:2825 people have been booked. The question that will be asked, however, is why they've been booked.
00:33Because very often when you see these kind of cases of supposed misinformation,
00:37it also inevitably turns out that some of these people would have put out posts that weren't exactly favourable narratives and so they've been booked.
00:46So we'll wait for those particular details. Listen in for now to what the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister said.
00:58If you would like to ask us, any of these people, any of these people will have asked us to ask them to do so please.
01:05They would say that their husbands had been persecuted every day.
01:07They would say that their husbands had never changed every day with their husbands.
01:11They would say that their husbands, they would not have been booked.
01:12They were booked on the same time in a single case with their husbands, they would say they were seen because their husbands, their wives and husbands have changed.
01:18Okay, Anagar Keshav is joining us with more details on this.
01:21Anagar, any details as to exactly who's been booked right now,
01:25the cases against 25 people, who are they?
01:31In fact, Akshita, we are still waiting to find out who exactly these individuals are.
01:3525 people have been booked a case against.
01:40In fact, what we are learning is that all these people,
01:42in fact, in today's age when there is social media,
01:44anybody has the power to speak their mind.
01:47In fact, the government says that there is a lot of misinformation that is also being spread,
01:51which can cause further panic and fear-mongering.
01:55And that's why the government says that first it was the chief minister who put out a video statement
01:59urging people to not spread misinformation, which could lead to a lot more chaos and panic.
02:04And now, Tamil Nadu police, after in detail examining the videos that were put out on social media,
02:10including the kind of comments,
02:11that's why we believe the Tamil Nadu police have registered a case
02:14and they'll also be arresting these individuals is what we hear.
02:17And like you mentioned, whether these people were arrested and booked a case against
02:21because they tweeted things that were not unfavorable of the government,
02:25that's still a question mark that we know only after we access the full details of those individuals
02:29who are listed in that complaint copy.
02:33All right.
02:33Thanks Anagar for those details.
02:34We're going to continue tracking all the updates that come in.
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