Overview

• Dehradun Police registered FIRs on Saturday night against three administrators of Facebook pages accused of circulating claims that the chief minister would be replaced.
• The cases were lodged at Dehradun Kotwali police station based on a complaint by BJP Dehradun district president Siddhartha Agarwal.
• Senior Superintendent of Police Ajai Singh said the FIRs cite BNS sections 353(1)(b) and 353(2) along with section 54 of the Disaster Management Act.
• The pages named by officials are I Love My Uttarakhand Sanskriti, Uttarakhand Wale, and Janata Jan Andolan Irritated.
• The Chief Minister’s Office and Uttarakhand Police warned against sharing unverified content and said social media is under watch as relief operations continue after heavy rains and cloudbursts.