New Delhi: Delhi Congress president Devender Yadav on Saturday lodged a complaint at Tughlak Road Police Station against representatives and individuals associated with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and other unknown individuals for “spreading fake and distorted news” through social media posts during the ongoing Lok Sabha elections to “mislead, incite, provoke the public and create enmity between groups”.
The party alleged that the SHO kept the DPCC president and his legal team waiting for two hours before accepting the complaint after Congress threatened to hold a protest against the police.
Yadav said that the BJP government seems to have captured the control of all the police and other probe agencies, and wondered if the DPCC president and a team of lawyers could be made to wait for two hours even to accept their complaint, what would be the fate of the common people who approach the police with complaints?
The DPCC chief, in his complaint, noted that repeated publication and circulation of videographic content, which are either “false, malicious or simply intended to mislead the voters” during the Lok Sabha elections, were intended to mislead the people. He said that these malicious videos are all available in the public domain and are being uploaded and shared by representatives of the BJP. He said that these videos were “distorted, doctored or edited” to mislead the public and the voters, and also to create “enemity and hatred” between communities as the excerpts of videos contain misleading and false contents.
Yadav has urged the police to immediately issue directions to take down the malicious social media posts, and direct freezing of their social media accounts, and stop further commission of such offences.
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