Google Maps misleads Assam Police into Nagaland; locals maintain them captive

The incident befell on Tuesday night time when a 16-member group of the Jorhat District Police was finishing up a raid to nab an accused, a senior Assam Police officer mentioned.

He mentioned that Google Maps confirmed a tea backyard space in Assam. However in actuality, the placement was truly inside Nagaland. “The group went inside Nagaland in pursuit of the legal attributable to confusion and deceptive steering on GPS,” he added.

The locals, nevertheless, mistook the police group for miscreants with subtle arms and detained them. Since 13 of the 16 officers had been in civil costume, the confusion among the many locals solely grew. “Additionally they attacked the group and one in all our personnel was injured,” the senior official added.

After receiving details about this case in Nagaland, the Jorhat police instantly contacted the Mokokchung Superintendent of Police, who quickly after despatched a group to the spot to rescue the 16-member Assam Police group.

“The locals then realised that it was a real police group from Assam and launched 5 members, together with the injured particular person,” he added.

Nonetheless, the locals held the remaining 11 officers captive in a single day, releasing them solely within the morning. The group later returned to Jorhat.

Earlier in December, a household from Bihar, travelling to Goa, led to a thick forest zone in Khanapur taluk in Karnataka’s Belagavi district after following Google Maps’ instructions.

The scenario pressured the household to spend a terrifying night time trapped of their automotive till they had been rescued by native police with the assistance of the villagers, officers had mentioned.

After passing via Khanapur city, the map had directed the household to a path between Shirodaga and Hemmadaga villages, main them 7 kilometres into the Bhimghad wildlife zone.

Police had used GPS coordinates to find the household and attain them on time.

In November final yr, a tragic incident occurred in Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly when three individuals misplaced their lives after their automotive, misguided by Google Maps, fell off an under-construction bridge and plunged into the Ramganga river.

The deceased relied on Google Maps for navigation and unknowingly, their car approached an incomplete flyover. Unaware of the tip, they drove onto the construction and fell into the river.

The incident got here to gentle solely the subsequent morning when locals noticed the stays of the automotive within the shallow riverbed.

(with PTI inputs)