Government has stepped up action against the websites that uploaded morphed pictures and videos triggering exodus of northeast people from Karnataka and some other states. It has ordered blocking of more than 250 websites.

Home ministry officials said more than 130 websites have been blocked till now while the rest will be blocked shortly. They said, this has turned out to be the biggest instance of cyber warfare on India in recent times. Therefore, Government is also Planning to take up the findings of Computer Emergency Response Team-India – CERT at the international forum.

A Pakistan-based hardline group is suspected to have been involved in doctoring images and spreading them across social

networking sites to create scare among people of northeastern region living across India. The group used Facebook, Twitter,You Tube and other social website.

According to a Home Ministry report, most of the online content started getting posted from July 13. Fake profiles were created for spreading morphed pictures.