Police questions digital ‘news portal’ owner Rafik Sheikh in Dhule lynching case: Indian Express
6 years, 8 months ago

Police questions digital ‘news portal’ owner Rafik Sheikh in Dhule lynching case: Indian Express

Op India  

As reported by The Indian Express, the Dhule Police has recorded the statement of an owner of a local digital news platform ‘Media Live’, Rafik Sheikh, whose news story on child lifters went viral in the area. The police are probing if social media posts that went viral in Dhule instigated the mob that killed five members of a nomadic tribe on 1st July at Rainpada village in Dhule around 350 kilometres from Mumbai. Rafik Sheikh, who runs Media Live, published a news story that claimed child lifter groups were seen lurking around in Rainpada, which is a part of the Sakri taluka in Dhule. However, by then the clip had gone viral and resurfaced after the July 1 lynching.” The cyber crime team of Dhule police probing the case are yet to confirm whether the lynching case was related to viral social media posts including the one posted by Sheikh.

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