One held for misinformation

By Our Staff Reporter
IMPHAL, May 29: A team of Mayang Imphal Police Station arrested a person today who allegedly took a video from his mobile secretly at a vaccination centre and spread false information and misled the public.
In a statement SP of Imphal West district, K Meghachandra Singh said that the arrested person has been identified as Haobam Tikendrajit alias Ibomcha (40 yrs) of Uchiwa Leirak Achouba under Mayang Imphal PS and seized a mobile handset along with a Jio SIM card from him.
The accused person took the video secretly and posted the video clip in the social media with the message that the vaccine was not injected and it was widely circulated in Whatsapp and Facebook by thousands of people which made the public believe that the medical staff in the vaccination centre were not injecting the vaccine.
Because of his act, the medical staff received false charges of manipulation and wrong deeds and were intimidated by many and the act severely affected the vaccination at many centres thereby reducing the rate of vaccination considerably, demoralised the frontline workers and made them vulnerable to obstruction, threat, intimidation and risk to their lives, added the statement.
In this regard, a report was submitted by Dr N Shamjai, State Mission Director, NHM, Manipur today and a case was registered at Mayang Imphal PS and the accused person was  identified and arrested accordingly.
Lastly the SP appealed to the public not to spread false information on the various measures taken up by the Government to contain the COVID-19 pandemic and not to believe in false and misleading information without proper verification.
He also appealed to all to follow Covid appropriate behaviours and SOPs issued by the Government to help in containing the pandemic.