By Scroll Staff
The Uttar Pradesh Police on Sunday booked YouTube channel Hindustani Media for alleging in a video that a Muslim man had been lynched by a mob in the state’s Shamli district.
Rajendra Prasad Vishishth, the station house officer of the Thana Bhawan police station, confirmed to Scroll that a first information report had been filed against the YouTube-based news channel.
The report quoted a complainant as saying that the channel had published a video presenting wrong information and made allegations of mob lynching, which had the potential to provoke communal disharmony.
The channel was booked for promoting enmity between groups under section 196 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and circulating false information to promote enmity, under section 353(2).
On Friday, the channel posted a video claiming that a man, Firoz Qureshi, had been beaten to death by a mob on suspicion of theft in the Jalalabad town of Shamli district.
The channel, which has more than three lakh subscribers, is run by Sadaf Kamran, a journalist from Bihar. It focuses on matters related to the Muslim community.
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