New Delhi: Film director Avinash Das was booked by the Ahmedabad Police’s Detection Crime Branch (DCB) unit on Saturday for allegedly sharing an image of Union Home Minister Amit Shah with arrested Jharkhand mining secretary Pooja Singhal, said the officers, reported the Indian Express.
As per the police, the 46-year old filmmaker had recently shared a photo in which Amit Shah and Singhal can be seen speaking to each other, during a public event in Ranchi in 2017, to “allegedly mislead the people and defame the reputation of Shah.”
The filmmaker who directed the movie ‘Anaarkali of Aarah’ was also booked in another case concerning alleged insult of the national flag by sharing a morphed photo of a woman wearing a tricolour in a Facebook post, the police added.
“It was brought to the attention of technical PSI K P Patel of the DCB that a person named Avinash Das had shared an obscene painting of a woman in which the tricolour had been painted on her on March 17. Additionally, on May 8, Das on his Twitter account had shared a five-year-old picture of Amit Shah with IAS Pooja Singhal in order to mislead the people and harm the reputation of Shah with mal intention. In that regard, an FIR has been lodged against Das under IPC 469 for forgery and section 67 of IT Act and sections of the Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act,” read a statement from the Ahmedabad DCB unit, reported the publication.
Jharkhand mining secretary Pooja Singhal was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with a money laundering case involving funds allocated for MNREGA during her term as district commissioner in Khunti district during the year 2009-10.