The state CID arrested two men on Friday for allegedly sharing videos of purported fake news related to post-poll violence in Bengal.
The CID had registered a suo motu FIR after several such videos went viral on social networking sites and following complaints from netizens alleging that purported fake news was being circulated by using their photographs without their knowledge or permission, the officer said.
According to the officer, they started scanning profiles from where such posts had been shared and got in touch with the social networking sites on which they had been shared.
The two who have been arrested are Argha Saha and Akash Mondal, both students and members of the RSS’s students wing, Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), in their colleges.