Delhi Police registers case in connection with doctored videos of Amit Shah

Amit Shah. Pic/PTI

The Delhi Police registered a case on Sunday after a complaint by the Ministry of Home Affairs in connection with the doctored videos of Union Home Minister Amit Shah being circulated on social media platforms, officials said, reported news agency PTI.

The Special Cell has registered an FIR under various sections of the IPC and relevant provision of the IT Act, they said. Sources in the Special Cell said that now arrests are likely to follow across the country, reported PTI.

According to the complaint filed by Sinku Sharan Singh, DC, Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre (I4C), some doctored videos of Amit Shah are being circulated on social media with "the intent of creating disharmony among communities which is likely to affect public tranquility and public order," reported PTI.

According to the complainant, links from which the doctored videos of Amit Shah were shared were also attached for further action. A copy of the FIR was also sent to the IFSO unit of the Delhi Cyber Police.

Meanwhile, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Sunday that the BJP will neither remove reservations for SCs, STs and OBCs nor will it allow anyone to do so.

Opposition parties have repeatedly claimed that the BJP's call for "abki baar 400 paar" is aimed at winning 400 seats in the Lok Sabha elections to have the numbers in Parliament to scrap quotas for Scheduled Castes (SCs), Scheduled Tribes (STs) and Other Backward Classes (OBCs).

Speaking at a rally in support of Rajveer Singh, the BJP candidate from Etah-Kasganj, Shah alleged that the opposition parties ignored people from backward communities, who were granted their rights by Narendra Modi after he became prime minister.

Targeting Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, he said, "Rahul Gandhi says that if the BJP gets 400 seats, it will remove reservation. I want to say that we had a full majority for two terms but Narendra Modi is a supporter of reservation."

"I want to say that it is a Modi guarantee that neither will the BJP remove reservations for SCs, STs and OBCs nor will it allow anyone to do so," Shah said.

The home minister also hit out at the opposition for keeping the Ram temple issue "hanging" and said the public has to choose between "those who opened fire at karsevaks and those who built the Ram temple."

Attacking opposition party leaders for not attending the Ram temple consecration ceremony, Shah said in Kasganj, "The people who did not go to the consecration ceremony, they know that they are the people who shot at karsevaks."

He asserted that there are two groups to choose from -- "one that fired shots at Ram bhakts and one that built the Ram temple".

(With inputs from PTI)