<p class="bodytext">The cybercrime police have registered a case against two men for spreading hate messages on social media against Congress MLA Zameer Ahmed Khan.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The two have been identified as Anush Shivappa from Mysuru and Madhugiri Modi from Tumakuru.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Trouble began to brew when Shivappa’s video, in which he allegedly abused Ahmed, went viral on social media which prompted a Congress worker, Iqbal Ali Khan, to lodge a complaint with the police.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The complaint was lodged on May 10. It stated that Zameer Ahmed, while addressing a crowd constituting people from a minority community on April 28, said no one could stop the Congress from coming to power this elections, and that he would become a minister. This statement was twisted by people affiliated with the BJP and right-wing activists, who began to harass him on a social media platform.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Besides, the duo threatened the MLA of dire consequences if he entered Mysuru.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A case has been registered under sections of the Information Technology Act, 2000, and relevant sections of the IPC, including those of promoting enmity between two religions.</p>
<p class="bodytext">The cybercrime police have registered a case against two men for spreading hate messages on social media against Congress MLA Zameer Ahmed Khan.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The two have been identified as Anush Shivappa from Mysuru and Madhugiri Modi from Tumakuru.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Trouble began to brew when Shivappa’s video, in which he allegedly abused Ahmed, went viral on social media which prompted a Congress worker, Iqbal Ali Khan, to lodge a complaint with the police.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The complaint was lodged on May 10. It stated that Zameer Ahmed, while addressing a crowd constituting people from a minority community on April 28, said no one could stop the Congress from coming to power this elections, and that he would become a minister. This statement was twisted by people affiliated with the BJP and right-wing activists, who began to harass him on a social media platform.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Besides, the duo threatened the MLA of dire consequences if he entered Mysuru.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A case has been registered under sections of the Information Technology Act, 2000, and relevant sections of the IPC, including those of promoting enmity between two religions.</p>