New Delhi: After a complaint was made against Delhi BJP spokesperson Naveen Kumar Jindal for tweeting a false video of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Punjab Police officers appeared at his home.
The police from Punjab, where Mr Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party, or AAP, is in power, came in a car “to arrest me”, Mr Jindal tweeted. “…I’m not going to be afraid of him (Arvind Kejriwal). I will keep telling its truth to the public,” Mr Jindal tweeted.
The Punjab Police have filed a First Information Report, or FIR, against Mr Jindal for allegedly distributing a “doctored video footage” of Mr Kejriwal on his Twitter account. The FIR was registered in Mohali after a complaint was submitted by Gagandeep Singh, a Punjab and Haryana High Court lawyer and a sub-inspector.
This is the Punjab Police’s second charge against a Delhi BJP leader since the AAP took power in the state.
“The complainant said that Jindal, on his Twitter handle, shared a cropped video from the original footage of an interview given by Arvind Kejriwal to a TV channel and doctored the original content. The complainant said that some words of the Delhi Chief Minister from the original interview have been dropped,” the police officer said, adding the tweet was posted on April 6.
The “doctored” segment of the film, according to the lawsuit, is about Mr Kejriwal’s comment on establishing clean and transparent governance.
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