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Journalists Use Fake Yogi Adtiyanath Email To Get Ads From Firms: Police

New Delhi: A first information report was filed in 2016 thereby leading to arrest of a journalist who created fake email-ID in the name Yogi Adityanath the former Chief Minister of uttar Pradesh and also forged his signature to promote his own newspaper.

The man was arrested by a special unit of the Delhi Police, and is also identified as Manoj Kumar, working as a journalist in Bhubaneshwar, Odisha an officila said.

To make it look as the chief minister was directly communicating for his office, several emails using the fake ID was sent by the accused to the Power Grid Corporation of India and other public sector companies such as the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) and Gas Authority of India Ltd (GAIL), seeking advertisements from them for his local newspaper. All the letters had forged signatures of the Mr Adtiyanath.

The accused owns a weekly local newspaper in Bhubaneswar. He also has an old case registered against him in Odisha’s Cuttack for allegedly extorting money from an official, the police said.

Director General of Police KPS Malhotra said that Yogi Adityanath’s then personal secretary Raj Bhushan Singh Rawat had approached the Delhi Police in 2016 and filed a complaint, stating that a fake email ID, yogiadityanath.mp@gmail.com, was being used to send instructions to public sector undertakings.

The accused was identified by tracking the IP address, and the Intelligence Fusion and Strategic Operations (IFSO) unit of the Delhi Police arrested him on Friday from Odisha, the police said.

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Amid Protests, Canadian PM With Family Moved To Secret Location: Reports

Ashmita Chhabria

Ottawa: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his family, amid the protest opposing COVID-19 vaccine mandates converged on Parliament Hill, have left their home in country’s capital and have moved to a secret location, media reports said on Saturday. 

First everything had started as a protest dubbed as ‘Freedom Convoy’ against a vaccine requirement for cross-border truckers and now has grown into a large demonstration against the Trudeau government’s coronavirus regulations.

Among the protestors there were kids and disabled people as well. Some of them were seen carrying signs with aggressive and obscenity-laced rhetoric directed mostly at the Canadian prime minister, according to The Globe and Mail newspaper.

Some protesters, on the prominent war memorial, prompting condemnation from Canada’s top soldier Gen. Wayne Eyre and Canadian Defence Minister Anita Anand, were seen dancing.

The police are on high alert for possible violence after hundreds of protesters flooded into the parliamentary precinct, despite an extreme cold warning.

“I am sickened to see protesters dance on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and desecrate the National War Memorial. Generations of Canadians have fought and died for our rights, including free speech, but not this. Those involved should hang their heads in shame,” General Wayne Eyre tweeted.

Anita Anand also condemned this incident saying this “behaviour we’re seeing today is beyond reprehensible.”

“The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and National War Memorial are sacred sites for our country. I urge all Canadians to treat them with solemnity, out of respect for those who have fought and died for Canada,” she said.

Police said nearly 10,000 people were expected to be on hand by day’s end. Media reports say that by Saturday evening the force did not have an official estimate of the crowd’s size.

On Friday, Trudeau told media he was concerned the protest would turn violent, but said the convoy represented a “small fringe minority” who “do not represent the views of Canadians.”

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