Delhi Police registers FIR in connection with doctored video of Amit Shah on ‘ending reservations’

The Delhi Police on Sunday registered a first information report pertaining to a doctored video of Union Home Minister Amit Shah in which he can be purportedly heard saying that the Bharatiya Janata Party will end reservations for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes in government jobs and education, PTI reported.

The video shows Shah addressing a rally in Telangana. The minister had said during the rally that the BJP would remove reservations for Muslims in the southern state.

The Delhi Police, which reports to the Union home ministry, has registered the first information report under sections of the Information Technology Act, according to PTI.

Muslims have had access to 4% reservations in education and government jobs under the Other Backward Classes category in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh since 2007. Shah and Prime Minister Narendra Modi have said that reservation on the basis of religion is unconstitutional.

However, Shah’s video from the rally was allegedly doctored to show that he was opposing reservation for Dalits and tribals.

On Friday, BJP information technology cell chief Amit Malviya accused the Congress of spreading the doctored video on social media. “They [Congress leaders] must be prepared for legal consequences,” Malviya had said.

.@INCTelangana is spreading an edited video, which is completely fake and has the potential to cause large scale...

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