A special co𒆙urt here has directed the city police to book a criminal case against Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar alo꧅ng with the Congress State IT cell head B R Naidu for allegedly using a morphed image of a protest by BJP leaders.
The BJP leaders had participated in a demonstration against the recent arrest of Srikanth Pujari, a Kar Sevak, ꧑who had taken part in the 1992 Babri mosque demolition agitation. The BJP demonstrators held placards which read: "I'm also a Kar Sevak, arrest me too."
The Congress IT Cell allegedly morphed the writing on the placards making it look like a confessional statement of scams and other irregularities and posted them on soci𒅌al media. The same was shared from the social media handle of Shivakumar, also the Ka📖rnataka Congress chief.
The BJP Legal Cell state convener Yogendra Hodaghatta lodged a complaint with the Special Court for MPs/MLAs stating that the post used a fals𒐪e document to create enmity🌄 between communities.
The court directed the station house ofꦐficer of the High Grounds police station to b🌊ook a case under Section 156(3) of the CrPC.
