Case registered on criticism by capt Sandhu looking for probe to hint miscreants behind false & salicious WhatsApp & social media messages
CHANDIGARH: The Punjab Police on Tuesday registered a case underneath numerous sections in opposition to unknown miscreants for allegedly spreading false and patently defamatory WhatsApp and different social media messages aimed toward tarnishing the popularity of the Chief Minister, utilizing a younger girl’s {photograph} picked up from her social media accounts with out her permission.
The case, underneath Section 509 IPC, Section 4 and 6 of The Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act 1986 and Sections 66 and 67 of the Information Technology Act, 2000, has been registered on the State Cyber Crime, Mohali, on a written criticism by Capt Sandeep Sandhu – General Secretary Incharge PPCC Office, to Director, Bureau of Investigation, in accordance with DGP Dinkar Gupta.
A police spokesman mentioned that distribution of such malicious and salacious content material on social media, together with information web sites and TV channels, is in opposition to the regulation, and he suggested folks to chorus from spreading these lies.
Capt Sandhu had, in his criticism, sought an intensive investigation into the prison and political conspiracy unleashed by sure unscrupulous and disgruntled components to tarnish the popularity of the Chief Minister by way of defamatory messages forwarded on WhatsApp and shared on different platforms, utilizing a younger girl’s {photograph}, apparently taken from her social media accounts with out her permission. The mode and method in which the {photograph} has been used clearly falls foul of provisions of numerous provisions of the regulation, he had identified.
Seeking registration of FIR in the matter on the earliest “to trace the supply and origin of these patently false messages on the earliest,” Sandhi mentioned “the position of sure political opponents of the chief minister in spreading this derogatory message, forward of the 2022 meeting elections, can’t be dominated out and must be investigated.”
Capt. Sandhu termed the contents of the messages, containing defamatory and derogatory insinuations in opposition to the Chief Minister and a woman from Malerkotla, who occurs to be an acquaintance of a relative of the CM, as “offensive, salacious and repulsive” and clearly circulated for character assassination of the Chief Minister. The message are being made viral on Facebook and so on with the only intent to defame the Chief Minister, he mentioned.
It appears that in their endeavour to unfold the lies, the girl’s {photograph} has been picked up from her social media accounts, with out her permission, with the only goal of maligning the picture of the chief minister, mentioned Sandhu in his criticism. In the method, these individuals have additionally knowingly tarnished the picture of the younger woman, who’s simply beginning out in life, he identified, underlining the necessity for an in depth probe into the the political conspiracy behind this defamatory marketing campaign.
Pointing out that the use of the girl’s {photograph} “tantamount to invasion of privateness which is a elementary proper”, Capt Sandhu urged the Director, Bureau of Investigation, to get the matter investigated from the Cyber Cell to hint the supply and origin of these false and lascivious messages, and guarantee applicable motion, underneath the regulation, in opposition to the miscreants.
Sandhu later mentioned that having did not make a mark in the current civic polls in the state, the Chief Minister’s political opponents had been now resorting to such low-cost and malicious ways to vilify him. These actions won’t succeed, he asserted, declaring that the folks of Punjab would as soon as once more vote for improvement and integrity, and won’t be misled by such false and harsh propaganda.
