Gujarat police detain filmmaker Avinash Das from Mumbai for tweeting Amit Shah’s photo with arrested IAS officer
The Hindu
Filmmaker Avinash Das shared a photo showing Pooja Singhal, who had been arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in a money laundering case, whispering something to Amit Shah
The Gujarat police detained filmmaker Avinash Das from Mumbai on Tuesday in a case related to sharing on Twitter a photo of Union Home Minister Amit Shah with arrested IAS officer Pooja Singhal, an official said.
He was being brought to Ahmedabad for further action, the official said.
“We detained Das from Mumbai on Tuesday. He is being brought to Ahmedabad by our team for further legal process,” the city crime branch’s Assistant Commissioner of Police D. P. Chudasama said.
The Ahmedabad crime branch had registered an FIR against the Mumbai-based filmmaker under Section 469 (forgery) of the Indian Penal Code as well as provisions of the Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act and the Information Technology Act, as he had also posted on his Instagram and Facebook accounts another photo of a woman wearing the national flag.
The FIR against 46-year-old Das was registered in June after he shared a photo showing Pooja Singhal, who had been arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in a money laundering case, whispering something to Shah.
As per the FIR, in a caption to the photo Das had claimed the picture was taken a few days before Singhal’s arrest, while it was actually taken in 2017.
The crime branch had alleged this was done with an intention to tarnish Shah’s image.
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