WhatsApp group admin in jail over Modi post

Bengaluru May 03: Are you The administrator of WhatsApp group so please be careful.A shop employee and an admin of a WhatsApp group were arrested in Uttar Kannada for allegedly circulating an offensive message with a picture of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

coming to details, Balakrishna Naik, an employee in a shop, was granted bail on Friday. The group admin, businessman Krishna Sannathamma Naik, remains in judicial custody.

Govt said in many statements that The people who are going to make the objectional posts through WhatsApp or any social media will be taken under severe action

The Group admin is arrested and was released on bail later.Krishna Naik created as Group in the name "The Balse Boys" from Doddabalse village in Bhatkal and added another member to the group, Ganesh Naik, who posted the pictures on April 14.

On April 15, Anand Naik, yet another member of the group took objection to the post and lodged a complaint with the police and Ganesh Naik was arrested.



"However, it came to our attention that Krishna Naik had added Ganesh back into the group after the latter left the group. We decided to make him a party to the case because he added a known offender back into the group," said Suresh Nayak, police inspector of Bhatkal circle.

The auto driver was arrested on Sunday. He was produced before a court in Karwar which granted him bail here on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, police are searching for Balakrishna Naik who is the part of the case.