Arvind Gupta, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s IT head, has stated that the party has filed a complaint against journalist Raghav Chopra for an image he shared on Twitter, reports Scroll. The complaint states that the journalist was ‘misleading general public by fake photographs/images’. Chopra apologised for his tweet later on: I apologise to everyone concerned for this unfortunate error on my part. — Raghav Chopra (@AarSee) April 4, 2016 As committed, we have filed a complaint at the Cyber Cell against @AarSee for tweeting morphed images of PM Modi pic.twitter.com/pbyGkdyuFz — Arvind Gupta (@buzzindelhi) April 4, 2016 Chopra’s work organisation CNN IBN also tweeted apologising that Chopra tweeted from his personal account and that CNN IBN was not aware of ‘this unfortunate lapse of judgment’ and that it apologises and regrets the error. The organisation was not aware of this unfortunate lapse of judgement. We apologise to everyone for this confusion & deeply regret the error — CNN-IBN News (@ibnlive) April 4, 2016 The BJP’s further line of action is not clear at the moment, but Gupta tweeted saying that the cyber cell would investigate the tweet according to the course of law. So let the cyber cell investigate the same, follow the process of law. Why are you afraid? @GauravPandhi @AarSee — Arvind Gupta (@buzzindelhi) April 4, 2016 Previous arrests based on online sharing: - Readers would note that last month, Patrika journalist Prabhat Singh had been arrested under Section 297 of the Indian Penal Code and Section…
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