Bengaluru: The Karnataka Police have booked a man in connection with "derogatory" posts that were made by BJP's Karnataka social media handles against Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar, said officials on Saturday.
Karnataka Congress lodged FIR
This comes after the ruling Congress in Karnataka on Friday initiated action by filing a police complaint against the BJP's Karnataka social media handle for sharing "derogatory" comments about Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar. "Based on the complaint received, we have registered an FIR under section 505 (Statements conducing to public mischief) of the Indian Penal Code at High Grounds Police Station and an investigation is underway," a senior police officer said.
A man named Srinivasamurthy, who resides in Tumakuru district, has been booked in connection with the case involving "derogatory" posts against Karnataka Chief Minister and Deputy Chief Minister. The police are actively working to locate him as part of their investigation into this matter. Police, however, did not divulge further details about the man as it may hamper their investigation.
'Cash seized in recent IT raids belongs to Congress'
On Friday, Congress state general secretary Surya Mukundaraj stated that the BJP's social media handle wrongly portrayed the huge amount of cash amounting to Rs 94 crore and valuables worth Rs 8 crore seized by the Income Tax Department during recent raids in Karnataka, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, and Delhi belonged to the Congress.
He also complained that the BJP had morphed the images of the chief minister and his deputy and portrayed them in a poor light to "create confusion among people".
Mukundaraj also charged that many BJP leaders shared the defamatory posts by BJP's Karnataka unit on the social media platform X. "The I-T department nowhere in its press release said that the cash seized by it belonged to ministers or any specific person. Even before the probe was completed, the BJP started spreading lies through social media to create confusion among people," the Congress leader said in his complaint.
(With PTI inputs)
