Almora boy booked for antinational post on FB

Dehradun | Saturday | 16th February, 2019

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“The boy is a student of class 10 at a private school in the city. He was produced before the juvenile court on Saturday,” he added.The boy was later sent to a correctional facility.Meanwhile, Almora SSP Kamlesh Yadav said that the public should refrain from posting inflammatory content on social media. DEHRADUN: A 15-year-old boy from Almora was sent to a juvenile home on Saturday for allegedly posting anti-national messages on Facebook.Speaking to TOI, Kotwali Almora SHO Arun Verma said that the boy, who hails from a minority community, was booked under section 153B (imputations, assertions prejudicial to national integration) of the IPC. On Friday, some locals approached us with printouts of his Facebook post. Hence, we registered a case and detained him late on Friday night..