These days social media has become so strong that anything and everything goes viral within seconds, irrespective of whether there is any authenticity in it or not.
Unfortunately, even a section of media persons are widely circulating the fake news without even verifying the facts. Spoofs, fake pictures and comments have become the order of the day in the social media.
On Tuesday, a Hyderabad court sentenced senior actor-producer and YSR Congress party leader Manchu Mohan Babu for one year compulsory imprisonment in a cheque bounce case.
The case was filed by director Y V S Chowdary in 2010 for a film made under Sri Lakshmi Prasanna Pictures banner, as the cheque of Rs 40.50 lakh given to him bounced.
The 23rd magistrate court at Erramanjil in Hyderabad gave the judgement that Mohan Babu should pay the amount of Rs 41.50 lakh immediately along with a fine, failing which he would have to go another three months imprisonment. Mohan Babu was made Accused No. 2 in the case.
So, within minutes, there were reports in a section of television channels and social media that Mohan Babu was jailed.
Pictures of Mohan Babu behind the bars of the jail and coming out from jail gate have gone into circulation in the social media.
Naturally, the senior actor got agitated. He tweeted that he was very much at his house in Hyderabad.
“Just heard about the false news of some TV channels. Much to their disappointment, I am very much at my home,” he said.
Of course, Mohan Babu immediately moved the court and got bail. His lawyers moved bail petition in the court, which gave him 30 days’ time to repay Rs 48 lakhs to Chowdary in the cheque bounce case.
Mohan Babu later said Chowdary had misled the case.
“We had paid him full amount for the film Saleem and gave advance of Rs 40 lakh to him for another film. Since Saleem did not succeed at the box office, we deferred the next film and asked Chowdary not to deposit the cheque in the bank. But he did it and when it bounced, he filed a case against us,” he argued.
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