India, March 28 -- The Mumbra Police have detained a 19-year-old college student for spreading rumors through his Instagram posts that a lockdown would be imposed across the country at midnight on Sunday.

The accused has been identified as Arham Azaharuddin Ansari. Through his instagram video he advised people to store essential commodities such as food items, medicines, and gas cylinders, as they would not be easily available during the lockdown. He also spoke of the struggle he had gone through during the 2020 lockdown due to the pandemic.

As his video went viral people across Mumbra began panicking and buying essential goods. The police then tracked down the teenager and detained him from his house near the Kalsekar Hospital in Mumbr...