The Utnoor police in Adilabad district on Saturday arrested Gollapalli Ravinder, 32, for allegedly spreading communal hatred through a Facebook post. The police are on the lookout for three locals who commented on the post. The comments are alleged to be equally offending.

According to police, Ravinder downloaded the post in question from a social messaging platform and posted it on Facebook on Friday afternoon. The police got wind of it and raided the digital studio owned by Ravinder and seized his mobile phone.

Utnoor was rocked by violence about a fortnight ago. The reason was an offending post on social messaging platform.