FIR against 17 organisations for spreading rumours over Uttarakhand forests fire

FIR is been registered against 17 organisations for spreading rumours on social media that a massive fire has broken out in forests of Uttarakhand. Appealing people not to spread rumours, Ashok Kumar, Director General (law and order) said that stringent action will be taken against those guilty.

Uttarakhand:An FIR is being registered against people, who are spreading rumours about fire in the forests of Uttarakhand, and stringent legal action will be taken against them, said Ashok Kumar, Director General (law and order) on Wednesday.

"Some people have spread rumours on social media that a massive fire has broken out in forests of Uttarakhand. It is not true. Photos being shown belong to 2016 when the fire had broken out. Some photos from foreign countries have also been used," Kumar told reporters here.

"I would like to appeal to people to not spread rumours. FIR is being registered against people who spread rumours. Stringent legal action will be taken against them," he said.

Earlier, Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat said that old pictures of forest fires in Chile and China are being circulated on social media platforms to claim that fire broke out in the forests of Uttarakhand.

"A misleading propaganda, using old pics of forest fires of 2016 and 2019 and that of forest fires in Chilean and Chinese forests, is raging on social media. I request everyone to not believe in such a motivated campaign. Fire incidents reported until yesterday is way less than previous years," Rawat said in a tweet on Wednesday.

ANI Report