UP police file FIR against 8 Twitter handles for spreading misinformation in Unnao case

Two minor girls found dead in Baburha village; circumstances and cause of death disputed between authorities and social media accounts.

In the fields of Baburha village, two young girls were found dead — and in the silence that followed, a second struggle emerged online. Uttar Pradesh police filed criminal complaints against eight Twitter accounts, alleging that users deliberately spread false claims of sexual assault and improper burial rites, contradicting official post-mortem findings. The episode sits at the uneasy intersection of grief, political contestation, and the state's expanding reach into digital speech — where the question of who controls the narrative around tragedy carries its own form of consequence.

UP police file FIR against 8 Twitter handles for spreading misinformation in Unnao case

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