Gurugram Police in Haryana on Friday exposed the utter lies spread by the known Narendra Modi fan, Madhu Kishwar, who had sensationally claimed that five of those who attacked the school bus carrying children had Muslim names.
Kishwar, who has often been accused of spreading lies to cause communal tension, had tweeted, “The names of the 5 people arrested for stone pelting a children’s school bus in the name of Karni Sena protesting against Bhansali’s movie are Saddam, Aamir, Feroze, Nadeem and Ashraf.”
Gurugram Police on Friday clarified, “This is to clarify that no Muslims boys have been detained in relation to the recent acts of vandalism on a Haryana Roadways bus and a School bus in Gurugram.”
This is to clarify that no Muslims boys have been detained in relation to the recent acts of vandalism on a Haryana Roadways bus and a School bus in Gurugram.
— Gurugram Police (@gurgaonpolice) January 26, 2018
This led to growing demand on social media to prosecute Kishwar for trying to cause communal enmity while others tagged Twitter to revoke her blue tick verified status. Faced with growing demands for criminal action, Kishwar deleted her tweet and apologised.
Dear @madhukishwar @Twitter this handle has repeatedly indulged in incitement time to suspend https://t.co/hYuxt9VD48
— Swati Chaturvedi (@bainjal) January 26, 2018
Someone should file an FIR against Madhu Kishwar for inciting hatred by spreading false news.
— Hasiba (@HasibaAmin) January 26, 2018
Heard @madhukishwar’s Manushi held Narendra Modi responsible for 2002 Riots but then she took money to support Modi. IF ABOVE NEWS IS TRUE THEN IT SPEAKS VOLUMES. No more Need be said https://t.co/ovK5GtHWl9
— Joy (@Joydas) January 25, 2018
Hope folks like @madhukishwar are suitably embarrassed for jumping the gun and being blinded by the haze of communal hatred https://t.co/MKfQa5u3oG
— barkha dutt (@BDUTT) January 26, 2018
Also those names are wrong. The correct names of stone pelters are – Babar, Humayun, Akbar, Jehangir, and Shah Jehan. The stone pelted by Shah Jehan was white marble.
— वरुण (@varungrover) January 25, 2018
Even if she has deleted the tweet, the damage @madhukishwar caused by spreading such a vicious rumor, is already done. There should be an FIR against her to make an example for other rumor mongers https://t.co/lqOcVaSg2z
— Pawan Khera (@Pawankhera) January 26, 2018
Maybe it’s time to arrest rumour mongers like Madhu Kishwar on grounds of fomenting communal hatred and inciting violence https://t.co/qOSav6kRaF
— Seema Goswami (@seemagoswami) January 26, 2018
One Twitter user @HonestLiar, in particular, reproduced some of Kishwar’s old tweets highlighting that this wasn’t the only time she had spread fake news items using her social media account to cause communal tension.
If this is true tweet series… pic.twitter.com/omZOX1iQrG
— Honest Liar™ (@Hones8Liar) January 26, 2018
— Honest Liar™ (@Hones8Liar) January 26, 2018
— Honest Liar™ (@Hones8Liar) January 26, 2018
A group of Hindutva terrorists belonging to Rajput Karni Sena had on Wednesday attacked a school bus while also setting another government bus on fire in Gurgaon, which is now known as Gurugram. The video of frightened children crouching for safety had gone viral. The terrorists who attacked the school bus were protesting against the release of the film, Padmaavat.