Amit Shah ‘deepfake’ video case: 3 persons arrested by the police for circulating video so far
In its ongoing probe into Home Minister Amit Shah‘s doctored video, the Delhi Police have issued notice under Section 91 of CrPC to some more people, including Jharkhand Congress president Rajesh Thakur, sources said on Wednesday.
Three persons have been arrested by the police for circulating the fake video so far, two in Gujarat and one in Assam.
Meanwhile, Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy has sought time to respond to the notice in the doctored video case. His lawyer has sent an email to the IFSO unit of Delhi Police.
More than 18 persons, including political leaders, from seven states have been summoned by the Delhi Police.
The Special Cell teams were also sent to Rajasthan, Jharkhand, Nagaland, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, and Madhya Pradesh as a part of the probe.
Besides Reddy, four Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) members, including Shiva Kumar Ambala, Asma Tasleem, Satish Manne, and Naveen Pettem, were also summoned under sections 91 and 160 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPc) to join the investigation today at 10.30 a.m. on Wednesday.
On Sunday, Delhi Police registered an FIR after two complaints were received by it, one from the BJP and another from the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA). The case has been registered under Sections 153, 153A, 465, 469, and 171G of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Section 66C of the Information Technology (IT) Act.
“We are trying to trace the origin of the doctored video. A reply from the social media giants is of utmost importance in this case. X, meanwhile, has deleted all the morphed videos from its platform,” said a senior Delhi Police officer privy to the probe.
A doctored video of Union Home Minister Amit Shah went viral on social media, where his statement indicating a commitment to abolishing reservation quotas for Muslims in the state, was changed to make it seem that he was advocating the scrapping of all reservations.
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