The Chennai Police have booked a Tamil Nadu Bharatiya Janata Party functionary for spreading misinformation and posting defamatory content on social media with the intent to cause a riot, The Hindu reported on Friday.
A case was filed against Vinoj P Selvam, president of the state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha after a Chennai resident Elangovan filed a police complaint.
Elangovan on Thursday referred to a tweet by Selvam showing a caricature resembling Chief Minister MK Stalin standing next to a bulldozer as two machines demolish temples. The text above the image claimed more than “130 temples had been demolished in 200 days”.
In the text accompanying the tweet, Selvam wrote in Tamil: “News that those who hoisted the black flag on Republic Day as Tamil Nadu during the liberation war have demolished 130 sacred Hindu temples.”
Selvam claimed that Hinduism was being suppressed more than it was during the struggle for Independence. He also encouraged…