WhatsApp Group admins can be jailed for spreading offensive posts, Says Varanasi DM's Order

WhatsApp Group admins can be jailed for spreading offensive posts, Says Varanasi DM's Order

 If you are like most people in India, you are probably part of multiple WhatsApp groups, where you receive dozens, if not hundreds, of message every day. While many of these WhatsApp messages are harmless some may call them annoying - forwards, you would've no doubt received 'news' stories that don't quite seem right, but you end up forwarding them to another WhatsApp group anyway because they seemed interesting. If this sounds familiar, think twice before doing it again, or you, and the admin of the group where you share that message could be in trouble.

PTI reports that a joint order issued by Varanasi District Magistrate Yogeshwar Ram Mishra and Senior Superintendent of Police Nitin Tiwari says that any factually incorrect, rumour or misleading information on a social media group could result in an FIR against the group administrator.