Fear and chaos reign as migrant workers in Tamil Nadu flock back home after rumour-mongers and a section of Bihar’s political leaders triggered panic among the labourers claiming they were being fatally attacked in Tamil Nadu.
From March 1, multiple purported videos have been circulated on social media that show migrant labourers, especially from Bihar, being attacked and even killed in the state.
A tweet that claimed “12 migrants from Bihar were hung to death in Tamil Nadu for speaking in Hindi” was posted by Prashant Umrao, a spokesperson of the Uttar Pradesh’s BJP unit. On Tuesday, the Delhi High Court granted him transit anticipatory bail for a week to allow him reasonable time to approach the territorial jurisdictional court in the FIR filed against him in Chennai.
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On March 4, the Tamil Nadu Police booked the BJP leader and Supreme Court lawyer Umrao, a Dainik Bhaskar Editor, and a Patna-based journalist Mohammad Tanvir for circulating fake news on social media.
On March 6, a case was also filed against the OpIndia CEO Rahul Roushan and Editor Nupur Sharma after Suryaprakash of the IT Wing of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) lodged a complaint that the website OpIndia.com was spreading fake news and created a sense of fear among the labourers from other states in Tamil Nadu.
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