MP: FIR against Digvijaya Singh for sharing a video on CM Chouhan’s remarks against liquor mafia

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The Madhya Pradesh Police on Sunday registered a first information report against Congress leader Digvijaya Singh for allegedly circulating a purportedly edited video of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, NDTV reported. Chouhan is reportedly seen promoting the consumption of liquor in the video. The Bharatiya Janata Party’s leaders had filed a complaint against Singh for sharing the video on social media.

“The matter of editing an old video of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and circulating it on social media with an aim of spoiling his image has been taken seriously,” tweeted Deputy Inspector General of Bhopal, Irshad Wali. “The case is being investigated by registering an FIR under the Cyber Act.”

Nischal Jharia, a senior officer of the Crime Branch, said the cyber cell’s social media monitoring unit registered a case on Sunday evening against 11 people who had retweeted the video and posted derogatory comments against Chouhan.

A nine-second part of the 2.19-minute video was shared on Twitter to malign Chouhan’s image, the BJP leaders said in their complaint against the senior Congress leader. The chief minister’s remarks were a statement made against the liquor policy under the previous Congress-led Madhya Pradesh government.

The video has now been deleted, said BJP MLA Rameshwar Sharma after sharing a screenshot of…

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