India, April 13 -- The cybercrime cell of Gurugram police has arrested a 30-year-old man for allegedly circulating a misleading video on social media and falsely linking it to the ongoing workers' protest at IMT Manesar, officials said on Saturday.

The accused, a resident of Sahia Bazaar village in the Ballia district of Uttar Pradesh, was arrested on Friday by a Cyber Police Station team (Manesar) after routine monitoring flagged a video carrying a false and inflammatory claim.

According to investigators, the video was shared on Facebookon April 10 with the claim that a woman had been beaten with a stick during the IMT Manesar protests, leading to her death. A preliminary probe, however, found the video was old and unrelated to the ong...