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Nagpur violence: 10 FIRs filed, 84 arrested, social media posts investigated
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3/20/2025
Nagpur police have filed 10 FIRs and arrested 84 people following recent violence and arson. The cyber cell is investigating over 140 social media posts that may have incited unrest.
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In Nagpur violence and arson case, 10 FIRs in total have now been filed, which means
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multiple FIRs with different kind of complaints also have come in.
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84 people arrested till now in the violence case.
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No religious, according to information coming in, remember, even female cops appear to have
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filed a complaint that the mob, the one that you see on your screen, molested the female
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cops.
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Remember, because the cops also were caught off guard.
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So there were barely a few who were deployed late into the night, about 7 to 8 p.m.
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The cops, female cops have alleged that they were molested, that one of them was attempted
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to be stripped as well.
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What kind of a mob this really was?
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What were they protesting about?
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Now, remember that there was a issue that, was there a rumor that was spread that a chadar,
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a holy chadar with some specific holy verses was burnt during a VHP protest that led to
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the aggression on the ground.
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Nagpur police has said no religious text was burnt during that protest on 17th March.
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There was just a rumor mongering that was done.
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I want to bring in Mustafa Shaikh for the latest on that because Mustafa, remember,
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has been on the ground.
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He's speaking to eyewitnesses on both sides, trying to ascertain what exactly happened.
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Mustafa, 10 FIRs.
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How is the Mumbai police, the Nagpur police, I correct myself, is ensuring that peace prevails
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but to ensure these rioters are caught?
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That was the pretext to, you know, basically influence hate or motivate hate against the
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police and this violence and riots after that had taken place.
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So, which were the specific accounts, whether they are only Indian accounts or accounts
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outside India, which specifically, you know, raise this false narrative based on rumor
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after which this thing has happened.
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So social media on ground and also you can say that the other factor for Nagpur police
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is to see when they are in a position to lift the curfew which has been placed in the jurisdiction
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of 10 police stations because there are many shops which are affected, many businesses
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which are affected due to this shutdown.
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So these are three things which Nagpur police is working on.
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Social media has been of big focus and that's why they have said that whatever analysis
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they have done, religious leaders they have consulted, there is no specific religious
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text was written on that piece of cloth or chadar which was burned during the protests
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back to you.
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Something should have been done by the police and the administration earlier to take religious
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community leaders in confidence.
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They did not anticipate the violence that will come out but the fact is the police needs
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to set a benchmark, law and order, irrespective of any community, any group.
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This mob violence cannot be permitted.
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Just imagine the fear by the families who were residing in these residential areas,
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women and children huddled in their home when a mob just went on rampage, arson and violence
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and now cops, female cops alleging they were molested too.
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So where does the investigation now stand by the Nagpur police?
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Here's what is happening.
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Maharashtra police is looking, why are there cyber cell now?
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They are investigating the kind of social media posts, inflammatory content which means
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they have identified over 140 posts and videos.
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What does that mean?
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Maharashtra cyber cell has identified and reported over 140 objectionable content which
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could have been provocative in nature including posts and videos across social media platforms
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that could have incited communal unrest.
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These videos and posts were found uploaded on social media sites, Facebook, Instagram,
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YouTube.
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The cyber cell is now investigating this, they are looking at what kind of posts and
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importantly who was pushing it, what handles were pushing, what kind of content that could
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incite violence.
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Just think about this.
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In the afternoon, some Hindu groups protesting in different parts of Maharashtra against
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Aurangzeb burning effigy and more.
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By evening it appeared, by 7-8 pm aggression shown by this mob primarily where we can see
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some members of the Muslim community have come forth indulging in full on arson and
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violence.
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Many have been detained as well.
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As Mustafa Sheikh, my colleague continues to be with us, Mustafa tell me this that do
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you think now cyber cell's role is going to become significant?
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There are CCTV, there are other digital evidence, how is the cyber cell coming into this investigation
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when we talk about the Nagpur March 17 violence case?
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So, a common link or a key person, influential person, who was that person, was there any
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funding or any organisation which is involved.
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For these things, the police will have to go to the root cause of this entire gathering,
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illegal gathering which has taken place and hence, of course, the arrests have been made
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but also they are trying to analyse the social media posts from which country of origin those
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social media posts were made from, who are the people who have made these social media
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posts, whether they have made similar such inflammatory posts before.
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So, that is the link which the police is trying to establish through analysing the social
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media content.
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They have registered 4 FIRs just under the IT Act regarding this entire social media
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posts.
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They are requesting all the agencies like Facebook and YouTube to remove such content
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which is inflammatory.
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So, basically to identify who are the main people behind this protest, social media has
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become important in the investigation of Nagpur Police back to you.
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Mustafa, please keep tracking all the latest on that.
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He is on the ground in Nagpur and he is getting us details where a curfew like situation presently
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in several jurisdictions.
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