Bhabatosh Chatterjee (38) of Rupnagar in Sonarpur was arrested from his residence on Friday for uploading a still photograph on the social media and claiming that it was an image of Baduria, the scene of an ongoing communal unrest, a senior Kolkata Police officer said.
"The accused had uploaded (on the social media) a still photograph of a scene from a film and claimed it to be an image of the atrocities going on at Baduria," he added.
A complaint was filed by a person and subsequently, a Kolkata Police team arrested Chatterjee from his residence, the officer said.
A mobile phone and a laptop were also seized from the residence of the accused, he added.
A city court has sent the accused to police remand till July 11, said the officer.