News item of sterility operations of doctor, as mentioned in Divaina ... a fib, states police

News item of sterility operations of doctor, as mentioned in Divaina ... a fib, states police

What was published by the main headline of today Thursday (23) Island newspaper is that police are engaged in conducting inquiries to arrest a doctor connected to Thawheed Jamad organisation and that the said doctor has carried out about 700 operations and has thus made 400 mothers barren. Information was further revealed that this sterility operation was carried out that by tieing up the fallopian tube during the surgery. It was also stated in the article that police were searching for information about this person for a week and that he would be arrested one of these days.  

The above news item which was published without any credible name or locality resulted in a
dialogue between MP Mr. Anura Kumara and Speaker in parliament today and the speaker responded saying that it was free from truth. What police media spokesman, Mr. Ruwan Gunasekera said this evening was that no information has been received about any suspicious person and that it is a totally false piece of news. The police spokesman further informed that an inquiry pertaining to the person who wrote the article concerned and Island newspaper which provided information which contributed towards publishing such bogus news. 

Continuous conflicts flared up during the past few days in the country because of uncertain suspicion that cropped up between two communities. This suspicion and agitation-mixed environment resulted in the curfew having been to be enforced, school children having had to stay back without going to school and activities of the country collapsing. If a person making an effort to weave news like this and bring it to the open, that is to aggravate this suspicion further. 

Some aspects of this piece of news were subjected to a dialogue across social media from this morning and even some doctors had expressed ideas to assimilate this to be true. Whatever it is, government medical officers association who held a media briefing today had mentioned that they demand the government to provide contents about this news item and that if it turns out to be genuine, the situation would be serious. In any case police are by now conducting inquiries not about the doctor concerned as such, but the newspaper which wrote the false news item.