Son asked oxygen for his grandfather, police filed FIR against him

FIR has been registered in the Amethi district under the Pandemic Act for tweeting the need for oxygen for his 88-year-old maternal grandfather.  

The young man Shashank Yadav tagged Bollywood actor Sonu Sood with his Twitter handle on the night of 26 April in a tweet saying, “Oxygen cylinders are needed at the earliest.

 After seeing Shashank’s tweet, regional BJP MP and Union Minister Smriti Irani said in a tweet made on April 27, “I called Shashank thrice but the phone did not pick up.”  I have asked the District Magistrate and Amethi Police to help the needy person.

 Amethi Superintendent of Police Dinesh Singh said, “Shashank had asked to provide oxygen for his maternal grandfather , although he did not write in the tweet that his maternal grandfather covid-  19 are infected or not.

 Singh said, “When Shashank’s mobile number was called, he did not pick up the phone.  We thought that he might be in trouble, so he is not picking up the phone.  After that we used surveillance and after finding out Shashank’s presence we reached his house.  Where he was sleeping.

 The Superintendent of Police claimed that Shashank’s house was 20 km from his maternal grandfather’s house and that he had gone there for barely five minutes after which He tweeted that.  It is evident that Shashank’s motive was to spread sensation and fear by tweeting.

 He said that a case has been registered against Shashank under the relevant sections of the Epidemic Act and he has been given a warning under section 41 of the Criminal Procedure Code after serving the notice. 

Meanwhile, the district’s chief medical officer, Dr Ashutosh Dubey, said that Shashank’s maternal grandfather had not been tested for covid-19 and was undergoing treatment in a private hospital.

  
He was also not taken to the nearby Ramganj or Community Health Center in Bhadar.  The Chief Medical Officer said that the claim of Shashank’s maternal grandfather’s death due to lack of oxygen is also not correct.

 Amethi police said in one of its tweets, “Neither the patient was infected with covid-19 nor he need oxygen.  He died of a heart attack on 26 April.  The kind of tweet that Shashank tweeted is not only condemnable but also punishable.