Assam woman arrested for inflammatory social media post

A woman was arrested from Hailakandi district in south Assam on Thursday for spreading inflammatory content on social media, police said. A case was registered against the woman at the Lala police station.

She was interrogated and released on a PR Bond and asked to appear again after a week, a police officer said. Declining to give the details of her post, the police officer said that it was regarding some persons in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic.