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BJP MP urged Delhi Police to register a case against Mamata under IT Act and check the original social media post, and initiate legal action against her.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee (PTI Image)
Bharatiya Janata Party MP Soumendu Adhikari, brother of Leader of Opposition in West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari, has filed a complaint with the Delhi Police against Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, accusing her of spreading fake news on social media.
He urged the police to register a case against the Bengal CM under the IT Act and save and check the original social media post, and initiate legal action against her.
This comes after Mamata recently shared a video on social media, claiming that a Bengali-speaking woman and her child were assaulted in the national capital for speaking their language – a charge firmly denied by the Delhi Police as “fabricated” and “politically motivated”.
She later claimed that the woman and the child were “threatened”. They were taken to various police stations just as I had predicted yesterday. They were threatened. We want them to come back, and whoever is speaking the truth and who is lying will be proved eventually,” news agency PTI quoted her as saying.
In his letter to the SHO of the Cyber Crime Branch of Delhi Police, the BJP MP accused the Bengal Chief Minister of spreading false information to damage the image of the city police and create public unrest.
According to Adhikari’s letter, on July 27, Mamata Banerjee posted on social media claiming that Delhi Police officers had brutally assaulted a Bengali-speaking woman and her child during a verification drive. He said the post also suggested that the incident was communal and tried to portray the Delhi Police as targeting people from linguistic minority communities, The Indian Express reported.
He claimed that such a post made by an individual holding a constitutional position had widespread reach, triggering public outrage and harming the reputation of the police.
Delhi’s Deputy Commissioner of Police (East) Abhishek Dhania earlier said that the cops had taken note of the video shared by Mamata on X.
“During sustained questioning, the woman admitted that her relative, a political worker from Malda district in West Bengal, had asked her to make the video. The video was then circulated locally in Bengal and later surfaced on social media,” he said.
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