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Minister's morphed tweet escalates Assam Covid figure; police asked to take steps

May 11, 2020, 17:26 IST
PTI
Guwahati, May 11 () Assam Health and Family WelfareMinister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday asked police toregister an FIR against the person who posted a fake tweet inhis name, escalating the number of COVID-19 cases in thestate.

The tweet appeared to have been posted by Sarma butthe minister said his Twitter account has not been hacked.

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"I have noted with deep concern an altered / morphedscreenshot of my tweet - where the numbers have been changed.Asking @assampolice to immediately file an FIR and investigate@DGPAssamPolice," Sarma tweeted.

A screenshot of the fake tweet was circulated invarious media groups of journalists in Assam.

When it was brought to Sarmas notice, he said, "Ihave not tweeted any such thing from my account. It's agraphic. My account is not hacked."

Sarma is also the finance minister of Assam and theconvenor of the North East Democratic Alliance (NEDA), theNDAs version in the region.

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As per the bulletin issued by the state health andfamily welfare department on Sunday night, Assam has 62positive cases, of which 26 are active and two have died. Theremaining 34 have recovered and were discharged fromhospitals.

The morphed tweet stated that eight more people havetested positive for COVID-19 in the state, taking the tally to70.

It also claimed that all these new cases were linkedto a bus that brought people from Rajasthan to the state. TRNN NN

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