Amit Shah video morphing case: Delhi police summons Revanth

Hyderabad: The Delhi Police on Monday summoned Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy to appear before the Cyber ​​Crime Unit on May 1 in connection with a doctored video of Union Home Minister Amit Shah. He has been asked to appear with his mobile phone that he allegedly used to post the fake video on X.

While the Union minister said in one of his polls that the Center was committed to abolishing reservation quota for Muslims as it was based on religion, the fake video shows Shah saying that the government was committed to scrapping all reservations. This went viral on social media.

A team of Delhi Police went to Gandhi Bhavan on Monday and sent the notice to persons who tweeted this fake video. Delhi Police had on Sunday registered an FIR against Revanth and other Congress social media activists after two complaints were received by 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. Officials said the case was under investigation and were trying to track down the case. origin of the video and the people responsible for posting it.

According to the FIR, the MHA stated in its complaint that it has been found that “some doctored videos are being circulated by users of Facebook and X”. “It appears that the video has been doctored and is spreading misleading information with the intention of creating disharmony among communities, which is likely to affect public peace and order,” the FIR noted. A report was attached to the complaint with details of links and handles from the home minister’s doctored videos to the notices served on Revanth Reddy.