Avadi Police have registered an FIR against News Portal 'Opindia.com' for spreading false news and creating a sense of fear among migrant workers in Tamil Nadu.
Stepping up the investigation into the rumours of the alleged 'attack' on the Bihar migrant labourers in Tamil Nadu, the police of both states have swung into action with the Bihar Police issuing the preservation notice to social media platforms while the Tamil Nadu Police is conducting the
The police official said that the videos which were circulated on social media regarding the alleged 'attacks' were fake and most of them did not even take place in Tamil Nadu.
Amid the row over alleged attacks on the state's migrant workers from Bihar, Tamil Nadu's minister for Labour Welfare and Skill Development, CV Ganesan, on Monday said the DMK government was in the process of conducting a census of its migrant workforce.
The miscreants involved in making the post viral related to the alleged 'attack' on the Bihar migrant labourers in Tamil Nadu will be taken to task and arrested for spreading rumours, a top police official said on Monday.
Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) chief Chirag Paswan on Monday called on Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi at the Raj Bhavan in Chennai. The meeting came in the bakdrop of panic sweeping the state's migrant labourers from Bihar amid rumours of attacks.
Launching a scathing attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party over 'rumoured attacks' on migrant labourers in Tamil Nadu, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) MP Manoj Jha on Sunday said that this was done through a manufactured agenda and that this fake news factory should be shut.
Migrant labourers are leaving Tamil Nadu because of the Holi festival and also the rumours of attacks on migrant labourers, said S Vineeth, Trippur District Collector on Sunday.
After being booked by police in connection with alleged attacks on migrant labourers in Tamil Nadu, state BJP chief K Annamalai on Sunday dared the MK Stalin government to "arrest him within 24 hours", while also alleging that false cases are registered against him.
A day after Tamil Nadu Bharatiya Janata Party chief K Annamalai held the ruling DMK party responsible for the ongoing stir over alleged attacks on migrant labourers in the State, the police have booked him on charges of inciting violence and promoting enmity between groups.
In a bid to allay the fear of migrant labourers, working in Tamil Nadu, triggered after several "fake" videos of attacks on them surfaced on social media, the State Governor RN Ravi on Sunday said that North Indian workers need not panic as the State government is committed to providing them