Viral video of physical assault: Dimapur Police arrests two

Dimapur police

Dimapur police

Morung Express News
Dimapur | April 18

 

The Dimapur Police has arrested two persons in connection with a viral video showing some youth physically assaulting some individuals in a village under Dimapur district.    

 

“Two persons namely Valen Sote and Medovi Kiso of Vidima village have been arrested for physical assault of some ‘non locals’ and dissemination of a video clip recording the same incident,” the Dimapur Police informed in an update on its official Twitter handle on April 18.

 

A case has been registered in Sub Urban Police Station, Dimapur, it added.

 

Further details are awaited. 

 

The arrest came a day after the Dimapur Police, based on a sou moto arrested one person from Nihoto village after a viral video clip showing some individuals “being physically screened by a car tape recorder.”

 

In must be noted here that the Nagaland police on Friday also urged all citizens to not “post, share, forward, disseminate, any message, content, pictures or photos, videos anything that could promote enmity on grounds of tribe, religion, nationality, race, language and other grounds of discrimination or disrupt public order, decency and morality.”

 

The Nagaland Police said that the violators will be prosecuted under various relevant sections of IPC, IT Act, CrPC and EDA Act.