Thread 🚨: After the rape and murder of a Hyderabad Veterinarian, several right wing handles on #Twitter tried giving the incident a communal overtone. #Hyderabad #FakeNews @TwitterIndia (1/n)
BOOM spoke to @cyberabadpolice, investigating the case, who denied any communal angle to the incident and warned against sharing fake and communally sensitive posts. #Hyderabad #FakeNews (2/n)
@Payal_Rohatgi tweeted the details of the rape saying, "Hindu girl raped and murdered by rapists in Shadnagar of Hyderabad. Is Shadnagar a Muslim majority area?" #Hyderabad #FakeNews (3/n)
@mvmeet founder of #FakeNews site Postcard News, gave the incident a communal overtone stating in his tweet that the victim is Hindu and accused is a Muslim. #Hyderabad (4/n)
Advocate @ippatel, who in the past has tweeted #FakeNews of a communal nature, mentioned in his tweet that, 'there will be no candle march as the victim is a Hindu' #Hyderabad (5/n)
Right leaning website @SwarajyaMag also reported the incident but did not mention the names of all the accused, focusing only on one accused - Mohammed. #Hyderabad (6/n)
Sudarshan News editor, @SureshChavhanke who regularly makes provocative statements and has also shared #FakeNews in the past claimed that the @cyberabadpolice "forcibly arrested two Hindus" in a bid to "balance the arrest of Mohammed". #Hyderabad (7/n)
BOOM reached out to VC Sajjanar, Commissioner, Cyberabad police, to ask him if there any communal angle as being claimed by the viral tweets and he categorically denied any such angle. #Hyderabad (8/n)
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