Parts of west Bengal have recently witnessed sporadic communal riots after a 17-year-boy posted a photo shopped photo of Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) on Facebook.

Trinamool Congress party office that was vandalised in Basirhat last week. The flare-up in Basirhat was triggered by a blasphemous picture that was posted on social media by a class 11 student.

Tarun Sengupta, Secretary BJP IT Cell, Asansol, WB, was arrested for spreading fake news and creating communal disharmony, tweeted the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) West Bengal.

Sengupta had allegedly uploaded a video of an IPS officer mercilessly beating a man. He passed the video off as one having been shot during Hanuman Jayanti, celebrated this year in April.

On Sunday, a RSS ideology praising man was arrested from Sonarpur in South 24 Parganas district by the Cyber Crime Cell of Kolkata Police for posting a still photo from a Bhojpuri movie and passing it off as one captured in Baduria near Basirhat in North 24 Parganas. The photo showed a group of men (actually actors) trying to molest a woman (an actress). This photo, too, was shared by several BJP leaders.

Two FIRs were registered in Kolkata against Nupur Sharma, a BJP spokesperson in Delhi, for sharing on social media a photo of the 2002 Gujarat riots and claiming it to represent the communal violence in West Bengal’s Basirhat last week.

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee has lashed out at the BJP for floating misleading and fake pictures on social media with an eye on triggering communal violence. “The people of Bengal will not tolerate the fact that BJP is using social media platforms by posting fake pictures and fake news to meet their political ends,” Mamata Banerjee said while addressing a public meeting in East Midnapore district on Monday.

Mamata Banerjee has already announced that a judicial inquiry headed by a retired judge of the Calcutta high court will be conducted to find how the communal flare-up in Basirhat was instigated.

“The purpose of this inquiry is to identify those who instigated the violence and spread fake news on social media, using clippings and stills from a movie and of violence that took place in other places, even Comilla in Bangladesh,” the chief minister said.

The stringent action of west bengal police tracing the source of hatred has bought down the riot under control said micro blog writers and appreciated in large West bengal Chief minister for acting firm with Iron hand in swift manner.