{"id":7593,"date":"2019-12-07T15:13:21","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T09:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=7593"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:10:48","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:40:48","slug":"fake-news-on-kolkata-police-project-to-help-women-in-distress-circulates-on-social-media-police-clarifies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/fake-news-on-kolkata-police-project-to-help-women-in-distress-circulates-on-social-media-police-clarifies\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake news on Kolkata Police project to help women in distress circulates on social media, police clarifies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A piece of &#8220;information&#8221; \u2013 later clarified by the Kolkata Police to be fake \u2013 has been circulating on social media about a project by the city police authorities to help women in distress. The text states: \u201cKolkata Police launched \u2018free ride scheme\u2019 where any woman, who is alone &amp; not able to find a vehicle to get home at night between 10pm-6am, can call the police helpline numbers (xxxx and 78xxxxxxxx) &amp; request for a vehicle. They will work 24&#215;7. The \u2018control room vehicle\u2019 or nearby PCR\/SHO\/OC vehicle will come and drop her safely to her destination\u2026\u201d The message asks the reader to share it to spread the information.<\/p>\n<p>Kolkata Police authorities have clarified on their Facebook page on Saturday morning that this is an \u201cincorrect message\u201d. According to the message, \u201cPlease be informed that no such specific scheme has been launched by Kolkata Police. However, Kolkata Police stands by its pledge of providing immediate assistance to anyone in distress-anywhere-anytime. Dial 100.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the police authorities have shared the number that is being forwarded in the fake message, The Bengal Story has erased the number showing on the Kolkata Police&#8217;s Facebook page screenshot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kolkata Police clarifies that there is no such specific programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":7594,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7593","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-bengal"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7593","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=7593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7593"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=7593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}