Environmental activist Saalumarada Thimmakka met City Police Commissioner T Suneel Kumar on Saturday, a day after a viral WhatsApp post had declared her dead.
Her foster son, B N Umesh, filed a complaint with the cyber crime police, seeking a probe into such messages.
On Friday, a message entitled 'Noted environmentalist Saalumarada Thimmakka is no more' with a photograph of her body on a hospital bed was widely circulated on WhatsApp. The activist, aged almost 100, thought it necessary to go to the police as she has followers all over the world.
Published 26 May 2018, 17:12 IST