By PTI
AHMEDABAD: Gujarat Police on Wednesday arrested filmmaker Avinash Das in a case associated to sharing on Twitter a photograph of Union Home Minister Amit Shah with arrested IAS officer Pooja Singhal.
The Ahmedabad crime department, which arrested him from Mumbai, was additionally wanting into one other tweet of his which appeared to harm the emotions of the Hindus, and going by his older social media posts, an official stated.
As per the crime department, Das deliberately gave a deceptive caption to Shah’s photograph in query.
Das, director of the Swara Bhaskar-starrer “Anaarkali of Aarah”, was picked up from his Mumbai residence by a criminal offense department crew on Tuesday.
He was produced earlier than a Justice of the Peace’s court docket right here on Wednesday afternoon.
The crime department sought his custody for seven days, however Metropolitan Magistrate M V Chauhan despatched Das in its custody solely until Thursday afternoon.
“Das was officially arrested at 4 am on Wednesday. We are now scanning his social media accounts to check if he had posted any other offensive material in the past,” stated Deputy Commissioner of Police (crime) Chaitanya Mandlik.
In a launch, the crime department stated it has discovered one other tweet posted by Das which seemed to be offensive and will damage the emotions of Hindus.
In this Hindi tweet posted on May 1, 2016, cited within the Crime Branch launch, Das had acknowledged in a satirical means that he can not surrender alcohol as a result of gods reside in various kinds of liquor.
Das had directed the 2017 movie “Anaarkali of Aarah” starring Swara Bhaskar, Sanjay Mishra and Pankaj Tripathi, and the 2021 film “Raat Baaki Hai”.
He had additionally helmed Netflix sequence “She”.
The crime department registered a First Information Report (FIR) in opposition to the filmmaker underneath part 469 (forgery) of the Indian Penal Code in addition to provisions of the Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act and the Information Technology Act, as he had allegedly additionally posted on his Instagram and Facebook accounts a photograph of a girl draped within the nationwide flag.
The FIR in opposition to 46-year-old Das was registered in June after he shared a photograph displaying IAS officer Singhal, arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in a cash laundering case, saying one thing to Shah.
As per the FIR, within the caption to the photograph, Das claimed the image was taken a couple of days earlier than Singhal’s arrest, whereas it was truly from 2017.
The deceptive caption was given to tarnish Shah’s picture, the crime department claimed.
The classes court docket right here in June had rejected Das’s plea for anticipatory or pre-arrest bail, observing that he had intentionally claimed that Shah’s photograph with Singhal had been taken a couple of days earlier than the latter’s arrest with the intention to “tarnish the image of the Home Minister.” The different photograph, of a girl draped within the nationwide flag, confirmed Das’s “mental perverseness”, the court docket had additional stated.
The Gujarat High Court had additionally rejected his anticipatory bail software, observing that Das had violated the Prevention of Insults to the National Honour Act by circulating a portray displaying an individual carrying a gown product of the tricolour.
The Bombay High Court too had rejected Das’s transit anticipatory bail software.
AHMEDABAD: Gujarat Police on Wednesday arrested filmmaker Avinash Das in a case associated to sharing on Twitter a photograph of Union Home Minister Amit Shah with arrested IAS officer Pooja Singhal.
The Ahmedabad crime department, which arrested him from Mumbai, was additionally wanting into one other tweet of his which appeared to harm the emotions of the Hindus, and going by his older social media posts, an official stated.
As per the crime department, Das deliberately gave a deceptive caption to Shah’s photograph in query.
Das, director of the Swara Bhaskar-starrer “Anaarkali of Aarah”, was picked up from his Mumbai residence by a criminal offense department crew on Tuesday.
He was produced earlier than a Justice of the Peace’s court docket right here on Wednesday afternoon.
The crime department sought his custody for seven days, however Metropolitan Magistrate M V Chauhan despatched Das in its custody solely until Thursday afternoon.
“Das was officially arrested at 4 am on Wednesday. We are now scanning his social media accounts to check if he had posted any other offensive material in the past,” stated Deputy Commissioner of Police (crime) Chaitanya Mandlik.
In a launch, the crime department stated it has discovered one other tweet posted by Das which seemed to be offensive and will damage the emotions of Hindus.
In this Hindi tweet posted on May 1, 2016, cited within the Crime Branch launch, Das had acknowledged in a satirical means that he can not surrender alcohol as a result of gods reside in various kinds of liquor.
Das had directed the 2017 movie “Anaarkali of Aarah” starring Swara Bhaskar, Sanjay Mishra and Pankaj Tripathi, and the 2021 film “Raat Baaki Hai”.
He had additionally helmed Netflix sequence “She”.
The crime department registered a First Information Report (FIR) in opposition to the filmmaker underneath part 469 (forgery) of the Indian Penal Code in addition to provisions of the Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act and the Information Technology Act, as he had allegedly additionally posted on his Instagram and Facebook accounts a photograph of a girl draped within the nationwide flag.
The FIR in opposition to 46-year-old Das was registered in June after he shared a photograph displaying IAS officer Singhal, arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in a cash laundering case, saying one thing to Shah.
As per the FIR, within the caption to the photograph, Das claimed the image was taken a couple of days earlier than Singhal’s arrest, whereas it was truly from 2017.
The deceptive caption was given to tarnish Shah’s picture, the crime department claimed.
The classes court docket right here in June had rejected Das’s plea for anticipatory or pre-arrest bail, observing that he had intentionally claimed that Shah’s photograph with Singhal had been taken a couple of days earlier than the latter’s arrest with the intention to “tarnish the image of the Home Minister.” The different photograph, of a girl draped within the nationwide flag, confirmed Das’s “mental perverseness”, the court docket had additional stated.
The Gujarat High Court had additionally rejected his anticipatory bail software, observing that Das had violated the Prevention of Insults to the National Honour Act by circulating a portray displaying an individual carrying a gown product of the tricolour.
The Bombay High Court too had rejected Das’s transit anticipatory bail software.
