Viral Message: Virendra Sehwag falls in the trap, gives wrong tweet and apologizes later that he gave on Kerala lynching, saying Madhu stole 1 kg rice. A mob of Ubaid , Hussain and Abdul Kareem lynched the poor tribal man to death
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Madhu stole 1 kg rice. A mob of Ubaid , Hussain and Abdul Kareem lynched the poor tribal man to death. This is a disgrace to a civilised society and I feel ashamed that this happens and kuch farak nahi padta. pic.twitter.com/LXSnjY6sF0
— Virender Sehwag (@virendersehwag) February 24, 2018
Viral Message Verification:- The tweet of Virendra Sehwag have a wrong indication that Only Muslim’s were behind the lynching of the kerala youth Madhu. And not only hime many of other people got this wrong impression and started giving a communal color to this barbaric event.
Virendra Sehwag tweeted earliar today “Madhu stole 1 kg rice. A mob of Ubaid , Hussain and Abdul Kareem lynched the poor tribal man to death. This is a disgrace to a civilised society and I feel ashamed that this happens and kuch farak nahi padta.”.
To which people also replied him back to not to give a communal color to this.
"The saffron mundu" .. muslims dont wear these mundu in kerala.. and please don't mix religion in this tragedy :( pic.twitter.com/3OI0qhgduN
— Rashid (@rash5053) February 24, 2018
The list of people arrested till now are It's is a crime to name accused from only one religion . Here is the name of all arrested. Aneesh, Hussain, Shamshudeen, Radhakrishnan, AbuBakkr, Jaijimon, Ubaid, Najeeb, Abdul Kareem, Harish, Biju, Muneer, Sateesh!
It's is a crime to name accused from only one religion . Here is the name of all arrested. Aneesh, Hussain, Shamshudeen, Radhakrishnan, AbuBakkr, Jaijimon, Ubaid, Najeeb, Abdul Kareem, Harish, Biju, Muneer, Sateesh! Do you have the courage to put out all names, @virendersehwag ? https://t.co/C3jB3QVGHR
— Sneha Koshy (@SnehaMKoshy) February 24, 2018
Sneha Koshy is a Journalist. Kerala Bureau Chief @NDTV.
Virendra Sehwag later apologized for his wrong tweet > Non acceptance of a fault is itself a 2nd fault.I apologise I missed out on more names involved in this crime bcoz of incomplete info & sincerely apologise 4 it but the tweet is not communal at all.Killers r divided by religion but united by a violent mentality. May there b peace”.
Non acceptance of a fault is itself a 2nd fault.I apologise I missed out on more names involved in this crime bcoz of incomplete info & sincerely apologise 4 it but the tweet is not communal at all.Killers r divided by religion but united by a violent mentality. May there b peace https://t.co/2ucRSInc96
— Virender Sehwag (@virendersehwag) February 24, 2018
However there are many who are still out there trying to make this a communal color. Who will say them that this was not communal at all but a human failure?