This story is from August 9, 2020

Lucknow: Audio inciting Independence Day protests, secession floods social media

Several mediapersons in the state capital received an audio message inciting people of a faith to stage protests on Independence Day to register disapproval of Ram temple construction at Ayodhya and demand a separate nation, on Saturday afternoon.
Lucknow: Audio inciting Independence Day protests, secession floods social media
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LUCKNOW: Several mediapersons in the state capital received an audio message inciting people of a faith to stage protests on Independence Day to register disapproval of Ram temple construction at Ayodhya and demand a separate nation, on Saturday afternoon.
Over 50 newsmen informed senior police officials about the provocative messages after which Lucknow Police registered a case and launched probe.

Many senior journalists in Lucknow started receiving the audio message from 12.30 pm onwards and promptly informed the Additional Director General of police, law and order, Prashant Kumar.
Police took cognisance of the audio and registered an FIR on the complaint filed by sub-inspector Mahesh Dutt Shukla.
Lucknow Police Commissioner, Sujeet Pandey told TOI, “An FIR was registered against unidentified miscreants at Hazratganj police station and the cyber cell has been entrusted the task to trace the senders.”
The FIR was registered on charges of sedition, Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, ITAct, vilification or attacking religion, race, place of birth, residence, language, speaking words against national integration, deliberate and malicious act intended to outrage religious feelings, and whoever, with the deliberate intention of wounding religious feelings.
The message was sent from numbers having codes of Malaysia, Canada and the United States.
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