The Special Investigative Team (SIT), probing riots related cases against controversial Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Sangeet Som, gave him a clean chit in connection with a case of alleged inflammatory video uploaded on a social media website.
The video was circulated two days after the killing of two youths — Sachin and Gaurav — allegedly in retaliation for the murder of Shahnawaz, a resident of Kawal village in Muzaffarnagar, on August 27, 2013. The video had this lines running across the clip: “Bhai Sahab Dekho Kya Hua Kawal Mein”.
Primary investigation found that the video was uploaded on YouTube by another accused, Shivam Kumar, and circulated widely allegedly after it was shared on Som’s Facebook account.
The police had registered a case on September 2, 2013 against Som and more than two hundred other people who had liked the video under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and also Section 66 of the Information Technology Act in Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh.
The investigating officer in the case has filed a final report in a court, saying that no evidence could be found against Sangeet Som. In his report, the officer said that social media site Facebook has failed to provide the details about the names of the people who had uploaded or liked the video.
The accused persons had been charged with circulating an inflammatory video triggering communal tension in the district which witnessed riots.
