NOIDA: Photographs pertaining to an incident dating back to 2015 in which five members of a dalit family can be seen removing their clothes in public has been widely shared on social media, prompting Greater Noida police to lodge an FIR naming a Twitter handle from which the first post was uploaded.
On Friday, the police clarified that it was an old incident and issued a statement saying the photographs were circulated with an intention to “spoil the image of the government”.
The post was first shared through a Twitter handle with the name Sheetal.
The incident was reported in October 2015 and three women and two men from a family can be seen in the photographs.
They had alleged that one Mahavir Nagar had encroached on their 2,000 square yard plot along Yamuna Expressway.
Dankaur police and the local administration had failed to act on their complaint for six years, the family had said.Nagar and the police had, however, said the family members were “habitual offenders” and that their allegations were baseless.
Later, the five family members were arrested and booked for obscenity and other charges under IPC sections 307, 147, 148, 332 and 355.
DCP (Greater Noida) Rajesh Kumar Singh said: “Some people are sharing the photographs to create ill-will and spoil the image of the government.
An FIR has been lodged at Dankaur police station and those who are involved in the case will face action.” Dankaur SHO Arvind Pathak said the FIR has been lodged against the Twitter handle user under IPC sections 268 (person is guilty of a public nuisance who does any act or is guilty of an illegal omission which causes any common injury, danger or annoyance to the public or to the people in general) and 505 (whoever makes, publishes or circulates any statement, rumour or report) and Section 66 D of the IT Act.
“Prima facie, it seems that someone had forwarded the photo from a fake ID.
The Twitter account user has been booked.
More names will crop up during investigation,” he said.