The Punjab Police Saturday registered a case after a "doctored" and "malicious" video of Chief Minister Amarinder Singh went viral on social media, a spokesman said. The state police's cyber cell has registered the case under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and provisions of the Information Technology (IT) Act against an unknown person, the spokesman of the police department said.

Preliminary inquiry in the case has revealed that the "malicious" video was uploaded and "doctored" by an unknown person with the user name Harsh Sofat (@harshsofat9) on a web-based application, he said. Police have also initiated steps to get the malicious content removed from all social media sites, the spokesman said.