It's deja vu all over again. Mumbai Police has apparently registered a First Information Report against comedy group All India Bakchod, after they tweeted a photo of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (of the BJP) with a Snapchat dog filter. This is a little over a year and a month after an FIR was also registered against AIB founder Tanmay Bhat, after he posted a Snapchat video parodying playback singer Lata Mangeshkar and cricketer Sachin Tendulkar. Mumbai Police apparently forwarded a twitter based complaint made by Reetesh Maheshwari to its "cyber police station". https://twitter.com/MumbaiPolice/status/885213473071702016 AIB deleted the tweet, and then had to defend deleting that tweet, especially against representatives of the Congress. HT Media reports that the FIR has been registered as per "Section 500 (defamation) of IPC" and Section 67 of the IT Act, at the cyber police station at Bandra-Kurla Complex. Some points to note: 1. This one is trickier than the last one: The last instance involved parodying two well known people, and is an act of parody, by poking fun at them. I'm not sure if using a dog filter on anyone is an act of parody, irreverent as it might be, but they did appear to be poking fun (the first half of the image, and the tag #wanderlust) at the PM's foreign trips. 2. Who should file the case? Section 500 of the Indian Penal code states: 500. Punishment for defamation.—Whoever defames another shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend…
