AHMEDABAD: Cyber crime cell of city police on Thursday arrested one Satyendra Rathod, 55, of Jehangirpura in Surat, for making viral a fake message about recruitment of male and female nurses of Christian community for Covid-19 duty at Institute of Kidney Disease and Research Centre (IKDRC). Rathod is serving as principal in a Surat school.
DCP, cyber cell, Amit Vasava, said that they had received a complaint from doctor Vineet Mishra that on November 25 a fake advertisement was made viral on WhatsApp that “the kidney hospital needs urgent recruitment of male and female nurses on a contract of 11 months and fixed pay of Rs 30,000 a month. Only Christian brothers and sisters should contact Melvinbhai (with his mobile number) between 8pm, November 25 and 8pm, November 26”. Vasava added that they probed the complaint by going through a chain of messages which were forwarded and ended up at a mobile number which was possessed by accused Rathod.
Through technical analysis police found that the message had originated on the same phone. “During interrogation, Rathod confessed before us that he being a Christian wanted Christians to gain maximum advantage in the recruitment of nurses in IKDRC and hence typed such an advertisement and made it viral on WhatsApp. We have seized his phone,” said a police official.