Thiruvananthapuram: A youth was taken into custody for questioning by the Vizhinjam police here Saturday after an alleged Facebook post by him insulted the Indian Army over its recent surgical strike on terror camps in Pakistan across Line of Control (LoC).

The police told Onmanorama that they have forwarded the complaint to the cyber cell, which will conduct an inquiry into the charges against the Shahul Hameed. If proved, he could face sedition charges.

The FB post has been doing rounds on the social media for the last couple of days and the police took Hameed, a native of Thiruvananthapuram, into custody Saturday after they received a complaint against him.

The police questioned Hameed and let him go later.

The Facebook post in question, allegedly written by Hameed on September 29, was widely circulated on all platforms of social media.

The message abused Indian soldiers for 'launching attack on Pakistan'.

“I have committed only one mistake – that of taking birth in India and I am pained by that,” the post went to add.

However, another message, which followed suit on the social media claimed that the earlier message was a conspiracy by RSS activists against him and that the anti-national post was not written by him.

The latest message claimed to show another message in which Hameed spoke about gender discrimination.

After the uproar on social media, Shahul Hameed had also filed a case with the Nemom police station over 'fake allegations' against him Friday.

In the complaint, he claimed that “someone created a fake Facebook post to insult” him.

In another Facebook post, the youth claimed that he did not write the controversial post and that he is “proud to be an Indian”.