Daijiworld Media Network - Puttur (SP)

Puttur, Sep 23: Town police have arrested a student of a private college at Mangaluru for spreading false message about a lecturer's death by making use of WhatsApp application. The person who was projected as dead in this way works as lecturer in a private college in the town.

The arrested student has been identified as Vinuth N, resident of Bantwal taluk, and currently is a second year BCom degree student in a private college at Mangaluru. It is said that he spread false news of the lecturer's death to avenge a past insult. The message that the lecturer died of heart attack, which was sent to one group by him, got relayed to various other groups, after which a large crowd of the lecturer's relatives, friends, students, and well-wishers rushed to his home the same night. After the visitors told the lecturer that they got information about his death through WhatsApp, he filed police complaint.

Vinuth had studied PU in a private college in the town. During the course of investigation led by police inspector, Mahesh Prasad, the student who started the message, was identified and arrested. The student told the police during interrogation that he resorted to this tactic to give a fitting reply in response to an incident involving the lecturer in which he felt humiliated. When he was a student of the college here during 2014-15, Vinuth said he had approached this lecturer to discuss the issue of observing Teachers Day but the latter had not supported his idea in a proper way.

Investigation is on.