Facebook page admin booked for spreading fake news

Srinagar, April 28 (KNB): Following the complaints received by Srinagar Police regarding the fake and fabricated news on social networking sites to create law and order disturbances, the admin of a Facebook page QNS24/7 Altaf Ahmad Mir was booked under Section 505(1 ) RPC.
Sources told Kashmir News Bureau (KNB) that the admin of the page QNS 24/7 Altaf Ahmad Mir S/O Gh Qadir Mir R/ O Gulab Bagh, Zakoora was found spreading fake news which endangers reputation of people, create law and order disturbances and copying illegally content from different online websites was Saturday booked by Kothibagh Police vide F I R No 32/2018 Under Section 505(1 ) RPC.



A number of complaints are received by Srinagar Police that a number of mischief mongers are active on Social Media who spread rumors.
Meanwhile, netizens have hailed this Police action to book the culprits involved in spreading the fake news and hoped that the drive will continue till the menace of fake news and rumor mongering brought to end. (KNB)