A man named ‘Sa Raavana Cholan SV’ shared an obscene image of Lord Ram and Prophet Mohammad on his Facebook profile leading to widespread condemnation from both the Hindu and Muslim community.
‘Sa Raavana Cholan SV’ who identifies himself as a ‘Periyarist’, ‘Communist’, ‘Ambedkarist’ and ‘Marxist’ had shared an image of Lord Ram and Prophet Mohammad kissing each other. (Image not published here due to curb its circulation).
The image became viral with several members from both the community mass reporting the profile.
Following this, ‘Sa Raavana Cholan SV’ locked his profile restricting others from viewing his profile.
According to his Facebook, ‘Sa Raavana Cholan SV’ hails from Neyveli and claims to be working with a security systems trader based in Chennai. The current profile picture is a painted image of VCK leader Thol. Thirumavalavan.
Speaking to The Commune, the owner of the business who wished to remain unidentified said that they had terminated ‘Sa Raavana Cholan SV’ from the job more than a year back in April 2019 after they had received a similar complaint.
“We had received several complaints about his inappropriate posts on social media. We had warned him several times about it but he did not listen to us. We then terminated him from the job ” adding that ‘Sa Raavana Cholan SV’ has nothing to do with him or his company now.
So far, no reports are available of anyone registering a complaint against the culprit. The profile has not been taken down by facebook despite the hate speech and peddling of inflammatory content.