PANAJI: Goa police has registered two different first information reports (FIRs) at Margao and Ponda police stations against unknown persons after a social media post, a day after Eid-e-Milad, hurt sentiments of the Muslim community.
Goa police has constituted an eight-member team to investigate the case. A team has been sent to Karnataka in connection with the case.
Chief minister Pramod Sawant said that deputy superintendent of police Tushar Vernekar is monitoring the developments in the case. “We have registered two FIRs. The social media posts were through fake ids. The investigating team has contacted Instagram and a representative of Instagram told Goa police that it will take a minimum four days to share the details of the id. If the person responsible for the Instagram post is from India then Goa police will bring them to Goa and we will arrest him,” Sawant said.
He said if the accused is in a foreign country, then a case will be registered against him and law will take its course.
Haj committee chairman Urfan Mulla along with BJP minority cell and jamaats met the chief minister over the Instagram post and demanded action against the accused. They said that post contained derogatory references to Prophet Muhammad and that it was done to incite communal tension.
