Delhi Police is investigating foreign bot networks and thousands of fake accounts used to amplify inflammatory posts during Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) violence and protest
Several operators of Instagram and Facebook accounts have also been booked. These cases have been filed on separate complaints filed by BJP supporters.
"Continue to perform your duties fearlessly. Wherever responsibility or accountability needs to be taken, I will take it as the Director General," CRPF Director General Gyanendra Pratap Singh added.
The near-blanket withdrawal of FIRs against violent CJP protestors, and written assurances, may indicate to critics and the Opposition that the Modi government is on the backfoot. However, it is worth remembering that law and order and the burden of maintaining peace also lie on the government in office.
While Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla repeatedly stressed that the government is set to introduce the Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Amendment Bill, popularly referred to as the Anti-paper leak bill, and debate is to be on in Parliament, the opposition MPs continued sloganeering, screeching and causing unwarranted disruption.