Delhi Police registers FIR against Prashant Bhushan over doctored video of Russian Foreign Minister

New Delhi The Delhi Police have registered an FIR against advocate Prashant Bhushan over the alleged circulation of a doctored video of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, which purportedly showed him criticising India over its internal affairs and oil purchases.

https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/ The case was registered by the Special Cell after the police came across claims about the video during cyber patrolling on November 3, according to a post by the Delhi Police on X. The FIR was booked under Section 336(4) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), which deals with forgery intended to harm a person’s reputation; Section 353(1)(c), which penalises the circulation of statements or false information intended, or likely, to incite one class or community to commit an offence against another; Section 356, which deals with defamation; and Section 340(2), which penalises the fraudulent or dishonest use of a forged document or electronic record as genuine.

The police have also invoked Section 66C of the Information Technology Act, which deals with identity theft, including the fraudulent or dishonest use of another person’s electronic signature, password or other unique identification feature. According to the police, the matter came to their notice after the social media handle @thequotesnews claimed that a purportedly doctored video of Mr.