YouTuber Maridhas arrested again

The Tirunelveli police have arrested YouTuber M.Maridhas in connection with the First Information Report (FIR) registered against him in 2020 for a video post insinuating ‘Tablighi Jamaat’ in the spread of Coronavirus and stoking communal sentiments.

Maridhas was arrested for the third time in a span of one week. He was already arrested in two cases of which the Madras High Court has quashed the FIR in respect of one case.

Sources said Maridhas posted the video in his YouTube channel, titled ‘Terrorism + Corona = India’s new problem Tablighi Jamaat’ on 2 April, 2020 in which he stated that the Tablighi Jamaat event at Nizamuddin in New Delhi during March, 2020 was responsible for great number of people being infected with the virus.

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