Volunteer of Covid treatment centre held for circulating fake message

Kottayam: A volunteer of a Covid treatment centre has been arrested for reportedly circulating a fake message that 15 people died of COVID-19 at the Kottayam general hospital in a day.

Kaduthuruthy native Gopu Rajan, 29, a volunteer at the Kaduthuruthy Covid first-line treatment centre was the arrested. Gopu is also a former member of the DYFI Kaduthuruthy unit.

District police chief D Shilpa said that he circulated the fake message through the WhatsApp group 'Nanpan'.

After coming to know that the police filed a case against the fake WhatsApp message, he switched off his phone and did not report to work.

Crime Branch DySP Sheen Tharayil, cyber-crime station SHO C Binoj, senior civil police officers George Jacob and P R Rajesh Kumar; civil police officers Sathish Kumar, P S Abhilash, K N Anoop, P V Subin, and Abdul Faisal were part of the probe team.

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