NEW DELHI: Delhi Police’s probe into Union home minister
Amit Shah
’s ‘deepfake’ video has taken its teams to multiple states. Cops are camping in Jharkhand, Rajasthan, UP, MP, Haryana and Nagaland to investigate the making, uploading and circulation of the doctored video.
Around 16 people have been served notices in the case till now, while Gujarat Police has arrested two people.
Besides office bearers of Telangana Congress, a notice has been served on an SP functionary in UP, a senior neta of Jharkhand Congress and another Congress member in Nagaland, a senior Delhi cop said on Tuesday.
On Monday, Delhi Police’s special cell had served Telangana CM Revanth Reddy a notice, asking him to join investigation on May 1. If Reddy skips the summons, a second notice will be served on him immediately, the cop said.
On Tuesday, Gujarat police arrested Satish Vansola, personal assistant of Congress MLA Jignesh Mevani, and Rakesh Baria, AAP’s Dahod district president, for allegedly sharing the video with an “intention to create enmity between reserved castes and unreserved castes” ahead of the polls.
Speaking about the deepfake video in which he is purportedly heard saying that all reservations, including of SCs and STs, will be scrapped, Shah said in Guwahati on Tuesday: “BJP is always in favour of reservation and will act as its protector. Fortunately, there was a recording of my (original) speech and everything became crystal clear (about the fake video) after I placed the original clips before everyone.”
