A 29-year-old woman was arrested by Kolkata Police's cybercrime cell on Friday for allegedly posting fake news on social media and spreading rumours related to coronavirus outbreak in the city.
The woman had posted that a doctor got infected with coronavirus while treating patients in a state-run hospital. She had also uploaded a fake page of a Bengali newspaper.
'This is the first arrest made by the city police in connection with posting fake news and spreading rumours related to coronavirus,' said a senior official of the city police's detective department.
The woman is a singer and an actor in a theatre group.
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