Police reached the home of Delhi BJP spokesperson Naveen Kumar Jindal
Officers of the Punjab Police have arrived at the home of Delhi BJP spokesperson Naveen Kumar Jindal after a complaint was filed over tweeting a fake video of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.
The police from Punjab, where Mr Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party, or AAP, is in power, came in a car "to arrest me", Mr Jindal tweeted.
"...I'm not going to be afraid of him (Arvind Kejriwal). I will keep telling its truth to the public," Mr Jindal tweeted.
The Punjab Police yesterday filed a First Information Report, or FIR, against Mr Jindal for allegedly sharing on his Twitter handle a "doctored video clip" of Mr Kejriwal. The FIR was filed in Mohali after a Punjab and Haryana High Court lawyer and a sub-inspector, Gagandeep Singh, filed a complaint.
This is the second case filed by the Punjab Police against a Delhi BJP leader after the AAP came to power in the state.
"The complainant said that Jindal, on his Twitter handle, shared a cropped video from the original footage of an interview given by Arvind Kejriwal to a TV channel and doctored the original content. The complainant said that some words of the Delhi Chief Minister from the original interview have been dropped," the police officer said, adding the tweet was posted on April 6.
According to the complaint, the "doctored" part of the video is about Mr Kejriwal's comment on providing clean and transparent governance.