DPCC President Shri Devender Yadav files complaint against the BJP for spreading “fake and distorted” news against the Congress through social media

NEW DELHI, ---Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee president Shri Devender Yadav today filed a complaint with the Station House Officer, Tughlak Road Police Station, New Delhi along with a team of Lawyers of Legal & Human Rights Department, DPCC against representatives and individuals associated with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and other unknown individuals for “spreading fake and distorted news” through social media posts during the ongoing Lok Sabha 2024 elections to “mislead, incite, provoke the public and create enmity between groups”. The Station House officer kept the DPCC president and his legal team waiting for two hours before accepting the complaint after Congress threatened to hold a protest against the police.

Shri Devender Yadav said that the BJP Government seems to have captured the control of all the police and other probe agencies, and wondered if the DPCC president and a team of lawyers could be made to wait for two hours even to accept their complaint, what would be the fate of the common people who approach the police with complaints?

Shri Devender Yadav, in his complaint, noted that repeated publication and circulation of videographic content, which are either “false, malicious or simply intended to mislead the voters” during the Lok Sabha elections, were intended to mislead the people. He said that these malicious videos are all available in the public domain and are being uploaded and shared by representatives of the BJP. He said that these videos were “distorted, doctored or edited” to mislead the public and the voters, and also to create “enemity and hatred” between communities as the excerpts of videos contain misleading and false contents.

In view of the seriousness of the misleading and false propaganda by the BJP, Shri Yadav, has urged the police to immediately issue directions to take down the malicious social media posts, and direct freezing of their social media accounts, and stop further commission of such offences.