Days after registering an FIR in connection with a doctored video of Union Home Minister Amit Shah regarding reservations for SCs, STs and OBCs, the Delhi Police has received a reply from social media platform X, sharing the IP address in Telangana from where the first video was uploaded on social media.
A complaint was lodged on April 28 and the FIR was registered the same day. The FIR stated, “….It has been found that some doctored videos are being circulated by users of Facebook and Twitter (now X). The video seems to be doctored, spreading misleading information with the intention of creating disharmony among communities which is likely to affect tranquility and create public order issues.”
During investigation, police summoned around 24 persons, including the Telangana Chief Minister, Revanth Reddy, asking them to join the probe. Among those summoned, five were from Telangana, one from Jharkhand, one from Nagaland Congress party, and another from Samajwadi Party.
“The investigation officer, in the meantime, sent a query to X, asking them to share the exact IP address, from where the video was uploaded for the first time. They have shared a landline IP address of the originator,” a senior police officer said.
A team of Delhi Police has been stationed in Telangana and they were trying to pick four Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) members — Shiva Kumar Ambala, Asma Tasleem, Satish Manne and Naveen Pettem. But the Delhi Police on Wednesday night got to know that the Telangana Police had registered an FIR on April 27 and picked all the four suspects for questioning.
“Delhi Police are now planning to summon them after serving a notice under Section 41 (notice of appearance before police officer) of the CrPC, and planning to issue non-bailable warrant against them,” a source said.
CM Reddy has no role: Lawyer to Delhi Police
Meanwhile, the Delhi Police has been informed by Chief Minister Revanth Reddy’s advocate that he had no role in creating or spreading the said video. “Reddy’s lawyer gave us a statement on behalf of the Chief Minister that he had no role in posting or creating the video and that he did not have information regarding who created the video,” an officer said.