Haryana Violence Row: SITs scan 2,000 social media videos, CCTV clips

The state government-led Special Investigative Team (SIT) has started scanning around 2000 social media videos and CCTV footages to identify the miscreants after the communal violence that erupted in Haryana's Nuh district.

While some social media clips are downloaded, the CCTVs near the hospitals, colleges, and commercial establishments are been closely examined to identify the miscreants.

Around 2,000 videos have already been downloaded from various social media platforms, including those that are making the rounds of WhatsApp. The teams are being led by DSP-level officers," a senior police officer said.

Varun Singla, the Nuh police chief, said an FIR had been lodged against three persons for posting videos that allegedly triggered the violence. "Our cyber cell is monitoring that. An FIR has already been lodged against three persons. But we need to identify more miscreants. So, we are scanning social media videos and clips from CCTV cameras," he added.

Six people, including two home guards and a cleric, died in the clashes that erupted in Muslim-dominated Nuh when a Vishva Hindu Parishad procession was attacked by mobs on Monday.

A total of 202 people have been arrested so far and 80 taken into preventive detention in connection with the recent communal clashes in Haryana, state Home Minister Anil Vij said on Friday.

Vij also said 102 FIRs have been registered in connection with the clashes so far, half of which are in Nuh alone and the rest in other districts, including Gurugram, Faridabad, and Palwal.

Referring to the Friday namaz, the minister said he has spoken to the deputy commissioners of Nuh, Faridabad and Gurugram, and instructions have been given issued for adequate security arrangements.