The Tamil Nadu Police have flagged a video approximately alleged assaults on migrant employees tweeted with the aid of using a Bihar journalist as faux and warned of prison motion in opposition to him. The police`s caution comes on an afternoon they issued pointers on a way to bust faux information approximately migrant employees being attacked in Tamil Nadu, which had created panic and compelled a few employees, on the whole from Bihar, to go away the southern kingdom. The “faux” video tweeted with the aid of using Manish Kasyap, who identifies himself as a “public figure” and a “journalist” at the microblogging website, indicates a few guys with Band-Aid on their faces and speaking approximately how they again domestic after being attacked. One of the guys even laughed earlier than speaking.
Referring to the video, the Tamil Nadu Police tweeted the incident did now no longer show up of their kingdom. “You cannot cheat everyone, each time. Please see this video. This incident (did) now no longer show up in Tamil Nadu. It is solely a scripted one. Please affirm the reality and tweet. Stern prison motion follows,” the police stated.
Mr Kasyap withinside the tweet tagged Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his deputy Tejashwi Yadav and attacked them for “lying” to the human beings of Bihar as that they’d stated no such assaults have happened. Mr Kasyap additionally tagged Prime Minister Narendra Modi withinside the equal tweet which the Tamil Nadu Police have flagged as “faux”.
The police in Tamil Nadu have issued pointers on a way to bust rumours approximately assaults on migrant employees withinside the kingdom. The police will call 5 senior officials to coordinate with regulation enforcement organizations and different states over rumours, propaganda and disinformation. A employee in each organization can be nominated as a liaison and the man or woman can be introduced at the police’s reliable WhatsApp organization for sharing information.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin has additionally reached out to migrant employees withinside the kingdom and confident them there may be no hazard to them as hinted with the aid of using the rumours. Tamil Nadu has a big range of migrant employee population, with many from Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal running in sectors such as construction.
A four-member Bihar authorities delegation the previous day met officers and employees in Chennai and expressed pride over the kingdom authorities’s moves after the faux movies emerged. The delegation had in advance travelled to Tirupur and Coimbatore, each of which rent a huge range of migrant employees.