khargone: Digvijaya booked for tweeting ‘fake’ photo of ‘rioting in Khargone’ | India News – Rashtra News : Rashtra News
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BHOPAL: The crime branch of Bhopal and Jabalpur police registered cases against former chief minister and Congress party stalwart Digvijaya Singh on Tuesday for allegedly tweeting a fake photograph and connecting it with the stone-pelting on a Ram Navami procession in Khargone on Sunday.
Singh, a Rajya Sabha MP, has been booked under IPC sections 153A(1) (promoting hatred between different communities), 295A (deliberate act to outrage religious feelings), 465 (forgery), 505(2) (statements promoting hatred between classes).
The photograph allegedly tweeted by Singh early Tuesday showed armed men in saffron robes waving saffron flags outside a mosque while a man is hoisting a saffron flag atop the doorway.
The tweet went viral. The state government said the photograph was not of Khargone. CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan and practically every major BJP leader in the state accused Singh of a “conspiracy to spread communal violence in MP”. Singh then deleted the photograph and re-phrased the tweet. But the damage was done.
In the evening, a large number of BJP leaders and workers approached the crime branch and filed a complaint against Singh, saying that the photograph he had shared was of Muzaffarpur in Bihar but Singh claimed it to be of Khargone.
Singh, a Rajya Sabha MP, has been booked under IPC sections 153A(1) (promoting hatred between different communities), 295A (deliberate act to outrage religious feelings), 465 (forgery), 505(2) (statements promoting hatred between classes).
The photograph allegedly tweeted by Singh early Tuesday showed armed men in saffron robes waving saffron flags outside a mosque while a man is hoisting a saffron flag atop the doorway.
The tweet went viral. The state government said the photograph was not of Khargone. CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan and practically every major BJP leader in the state accused Singh of a “conspiracy to spread communal violence in MP”. Singh then deleted the photograph and re-phrased the tweet. But the damage was done.
In the evening, a large number of BJP leaders and workers approached the crime branch and filed a complaint against Singh, saying that the photograph he had shared was of Muzaffarpur in Bihar but Singh claimed it to be of Khargone.
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