Udupi cops bust fake news, book fanatic

Udupi, NT Bureau: A day after issuing a clarification over the matter, the district police booked three girl students for allegedly recording a video of a girl in the toilet of a private nursing home here.

As the three girl students belong to a minority community, the matter was communalised with misleading information causing an uproar on various social media platforms by extreme rightwing members.

Further, when the matter was being politicised, the Udupi district Superintendent of Police Hakay Akshay Macchindra and the college management rubbished the misleading claims and said that the video was mistakenly filmed by the accused girls as a part of a prank.

Cops also busted fake news where a morphed video of the incident was allegedly uploaded on a Kannada YouTube channel.

An individual had allegedly posted it on his Twitter account. A case for causing communal enmity has been registered in this regard, police said.

The person was identified as Kalu Singh Chauhan. SP Macchindra said the video uploaded by Kalu Singh, is from a Chennai-based YouTube channel.