The Hyderabad Cyber Crimes police arrested five individuals, from the social media team of Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee, for circulating an allegedly morphed video of the speech delivered by Union Home Minister Amit Shah during his election campaign and public meeting at Siddipet.
According to police, Pendyala Vamshi Krishna, Manne Sathish, Pettam Naveen and Asma Tasleem and Koya Geetha have been arrested and five mobile phones, one tablet, two laptops and two CPU cabinets seized from them.
The arrests were made following a complaint from BJP State general secretary G. Premender Reddy on April 27. He claimed that the Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee posted morphed/fabricated video of Union Home Minister Amit Shah on their X (formerly Twitter) account. “The said act of the TPCC president and their social media in morphing/fabricating Amit Shah’s speech and committed offence under the I.T. Act. The deliberate and mischievous act is aimed at misleading the people and voters creating fear amongst the OBC communities,” Mr. Reddy said in his complaint.
