WhatsApp Group Admins Arrested Over Members’ Posts/ Co-admins’ Post | How I was invited to assist police investigations | Beware before accepting to be co-admins

WhatsApp Group Admins Arrested Over Members’ Posts/ Co-admins’ Post | How I was invited to assist police investigations | Beware before accepting to be co-admins

WhatsApp group admins arrested over members’ posts’ and co-admins’ posts was what I found out on Google search after I was required to assist with police and BNI investigations. Before then, I never knew admins of social media platforms could be held liable for postings by members of the group. Therefore, before you accept to be a co-admin of any social media platform, be sure you can moderate the platform in tandem with national laws. Also, make sure you are familiar with the fellow admins who will not undertake any fraud activity with or without your knowledge.

In Nigeria

According to Vanguardngr.com on 10th September 2018 the Kano State Police Command has arrested an Administrator and members of a WhatsApp Group for circulating fake news and an image of a married woman whom they claimed was trafficking in children in the city.

The Spokesperson of the Police in the State, Superintendent of Police Magaji Musa Maaji told PRNigeria that the suspects were arrested and paraded after the victim of the circulated image lodged a formal complaint to the Police Command.

In India

According to ndtv.com on 14th July 2018 a 21-year-old WhatsApp group admin is in jail since the last five months after an objectionable message was posted in the group by another member.
A 17-year-old boy from Rajgarh district in Madhya Pradesh allegedly posted an anti-national message on the WhatsApp group on February 14, Talen police station in-charge Narmada Prasad Dahima said today. Some people took strong objection to it and filed a police complaint.

“Acting on the complaint, police summoned the boy and the then group administrator, Raja Gurjar,” Dahima said.

See also: How To Mute Sounds Of Incoming WhatsApp And Telegram Messages Without Putting The Phone On Silence

India again

In another case involving child pornography being shared on Whatsapp platforms, according to ndtv.com

The agency has conducted searches at the homes of the five group admins –in Delhi, Noida and Kannauj in Uttar Pradesh and Mumbai — and seized tablets, laptops, and mobile phones containing incriminating evidence. A 20-year-old graduate called Nikhil Verma was arrested today in Kannauj. He will be brought to the agency’s headquarters in Delhi for questioning, sources said.

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