more-inCo-founder of online portal ‘Postcard News’, Mahesh Vikram Hegde, was arrested by the CCB police on Thursday on charges of spreading fake and communally sensitive news. No one is safe in Siddaramaiah’s Karnataka.” The same was tweeted on the Postcard News handle as well. An Alt News expose had found that the photo was taken from the website of online Jain news portal, Ahimsa Kranti. The photograph that Hegde had tweeted can be found on the Ahimsa Kranti website, with a caption stating that he had been injured in an accident. The police have also taken cognisance of an FIR registered against Postcard News in Sanjaynagar police station limits in December 2017.

Source: The Hindu March 30, 2018 01:56 UTC