FIR against Prashant Bhushan for sharing fake Russian foreign minister video

The Delhi Police on Wednesday said that it has filed a first information report against advocate Prashant Bhushan for sharing a video of the Russian foreign minister manipulated using artificial intelligence.

The manipulated video showed Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov saying that New Delhi and Moscow were merely trading partners and that their commercial relationship “did not give India the right to interfere in our foreign policy”.

It also showed him saying that India was “neither an ally, nor a superpower whose advice” Russia was bound to follow.

The video was widely shared online.

While sharing the video, Bhushan had said that the comments were “a tight slap” by the Russian foreign minister on India. “What kind of advice was [Indian External Affairs Minister S] Jaishankar giving to Russia?” he had asked.

After the video, first posted by another account on social media platform X, was shared by Bhushan, the Ministry of External Affairs had said on Tuesday that it was fake.

The Russian embassy in Delhi also said that it was fake.

On Wednesday, the police said that it had noticed a post by another account claiming that “a purported doctored video of the Russian foreign minister, hostile to India” was shared by Bhushan’s account.

“Through the said video, there is an allegation of disseminating misleading,...

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