The police on Thursday arrested a 20-year-old mentally sick youth on the charge of posting offensive pictures on Facebook accounts of some other persons that resulted into communal violence in Khandwa region few days ago.
On July 30, a complaint with the Moghat Road police station was lodged regarding posting of offensive pictures hurting religious feeling of Muslim community which was posted on a fake Facebook profile in the name of Khandwa Municipal Chairperson Amar Yadav.
Based on the complaint of Amar Yadav, a case under Section 153(A), 295 (A) and 66 (A) of Information Technology Act 2000 was registered and investigation was started.
Before any action by the police the pictures uploaded using the fake profile was circulated and shared by numerous users creating communal tension in the region and anti social elements took the opportunity to incite religious violence resulting into casualties and curfew in different parts of the region.
In the investigation it was found that the fake Facebook profile was created by Nitesh who was suffering from mental illness. The accused is pursuing his graduation and is a first year student.
Investigations revealed that the accused was not normal in his behaviour and mentally unstable. The accused was average in his studies but holds expertise in computer and internet. Around six months ago his brother committed suicide and had fight with youths of other communities and after the suicide the accused decided to take revenge and posted offensive pictures to incite communal flare.
He had also confirmed hacking profiles of Naved on July 7, 2014, Anurag Soni on July 30,2014 and Appu alias Sagar Verma and used to post offensive pictures of religious deities.
Investigation has been started and the accused would be questioned regarding the different posts loaded by him using fake social networking profiles.