{"id":3975,"date":"2019-01-18T16:07:14","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T10:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=3975"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:12:46","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:42:46","slug":"delhi-police-directed-by-election-commission-to-probe-into-fake-news-of-lok-sabha-election-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/delhi-police-directed-by-election-commission-to-probe-into-fake-news-of-lok-sabha-election-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi Police directed by Election Commission to probe into  fake news of Lok Sabha election schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">With the \u2018fake news\u2019 of the upcoming Lok Sabha election schedule circulating on social media, the Election Commission of India ( EC ) on \u00a0Thursday has directed the Delhi Police to \u2018investigate\u2019 the matter.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Delhi Chief Electoral Officer ( CEO ) has written to the Delhi Police seeking \u2018immediate necessary action\u2019 against anyone involved &#8211; all \u2018unknown persons and entities\u2019 behind circulating this fake news.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Addressed to the Special Commissioner of Police, Special Cell and Technology Cell, the letter makes a mention of \u2018social media platforms like Facebook, WhatsApp\u2019 where this fake news \u00a0has been circulated. The letter\u00a0 adds that such fake news has resulted in \u2018severe confusion\u2019 and is causing \u2018public nuisance and mischief\u2019.<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the \u2018fake news\u2019 of the upcoming Lok Sabha election schedule circulating on social media, the Election Commission of India ( EC ) on \u00a0Thursday has directed the Delhi Police to \u2018investigate\u2019 the matter. The Delhi Chief Electoral Officer ( CEO ) has written to the Delhi Police seeking \u2018immediate necessary action\u2019 against anyone involved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":3976,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3975","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3975"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=3975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}