ISLAMABAD – As per a report by the Indian news organisation NDTVlink,77 persons have been arrested in India’s Uttar Pradesh (UP) state withinthe last two days of the Supreme Court’s verdict on the Ayodhya issue.

It is being said that the 77 arrested, using their social media profiles,were trying to incite communal violence by their activity on social mediawebsites. The posts they had made on platforms like Facebook, Twitter, andYoutube had been screened by authorities, which was what got them arrested.

In the UP capital Lucknow, the police shared that they had registered 34cases, and that the police department’s social media monitoring wing was onhigh alert to ensure no communal violence breaks out. As of Sunday, actionhas been taken against 8,275 posts, with 4,563 of these posts beingidentified on Sunday.

India has a history of violent communal riots, which depending on thecontext, have targeted Dalits, Sikhs, Muslims, and other religious andethnic communities.

Although the police have not identified the demographic backgrounds of thearrested 77, it is possible they belong from both Muslim and Hinducommunities in India, both of which had a stake in the Ayodhya case.