Maharashtra Police arrested ABP News reporter for spreading rumors and granted bail later
An FIR was lodged against a TV journalist in Maharashtra over the news that train services would be restored, causing migrant workers in suburban Bandra on Tuesday.
A police officer said that the accused Rahul Kulkarni of Osmanabad district of Maharashtra has been taken into custody and the police is bringing him to Mumbai.
He told that in a recent news, Kulkarni had said that the general public trains would be restored for those stranded due to the lockdown. The officer said that he has been booked under sections 188, 269, 270 and 117 of the IPC.
Significantly, more than 1,000 migrant workers had gathered near Bandra railway station here on Tuesday afternoon, most of them from Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. They were demanding that the state government arrange traffic for them so that they could return to their respective cities and villages.
Behind the crowd of migrant laborers gathered at Bandra station in Mumbai, ABP Majha Marathi News reported at 11 am that trains were being run from Bandra to take the migrants to their village.
Sources reveal that around 150 buses were filled and brought to the station. So it was natural for the crowd of thousands to gather at the station.
The big question is that at whose behest ABP Marathi ran this wrong news.
Thousands of migrant workers had gathered at the railway station due to the spread of this news. The serious question is that the Hindi channel of this group was carrying forward the Conspiracy Theory by giving the issue a Muslim angle.
