With over five lakh people fleeing to their homes in Assam and other North-East states, the government has realized that a few hate bulk SMS and the false rumors that have been spread on the internet via several websites had a big role to play. The government had already made the 5 SMS per day cap on effective in the state as it is striving to get the websites responsible for the incitement of the exodus closed to restore the peace in the nation.
On several social networking sites, there were numerous morphed pictures and videos that had been intended to create exodus from several major cities in the south and the north.

Home Ministry had worked on the issue and has gotten over 130 sites blocked as of today while it still has a longer list of sites to be blocked. As planned there are 120 more websites that it has promised to block soon.
"We are planning to block some more sites," an official at the Home Ministry said.

Government is also pondering the idea of taking up the information from the international forums on CERT-In ( Computer Emergency Response Team-India) which had been registered as the biggest scandal in cyber warfare on India recently.

It is also suspected that a hardline group based in Pakistan could have been responsible for the morphed pictures while spreading them on popular networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube triggering the fear in northeastern people.
Investigations revealed that starting July 13 several fake profiles were created intended solely to spread the doctored images according to the home ministry report which was prepared after the nation witnessed mass exodus of people belonging to the north east from Bangalore, Pune, Chennai and Mumbai after several rumors were spread about attacks on them.

(AW- Anil)