News Channel Editor Arrested for Inflammatory Posts on Nuh Communal Violence

New Delhi: Mukesh Kumar, the resident editor of Sudarsan News, a Hindi news channel, was arrested by Gurugram Police on Friday for allegedly sharing inflammatory posts on social media about the communal violence in Nuh and other districts of Haryana.

The channel initially claimed that Mukesh Kumar was “kidnapped” by some “goons”.

However, Gurugram Police issued a statement clarifying that he was arrested by the Cyber Crime division.

Sudarshan News’ editor-in-chief Suresh Chavhanke, in a long post on social media, raised questions about Mr Kumar’s arrest.

Then an hour later, he claimed that Mr Kumar has been released, however, there has been no official statement from the Gurugram Police.