{"id":15477,"date":"2024-05-05T11:38:35","date_gmt":"2024-05-05T06:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asia.businessupturn.com\/?p=15477"},"modified":"2024-05-05T11:38:35","modified_gmt":"2024-05-05T06:08:35","slug":"pm-modi-and-amit-shah-react-as-congress-party-members-arrested-over-doctored-video-circulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/south-asia\/india\/pm-modi-and-amit-shah-react-as-congress-party-members-arrested-over-doctored-video-circulation\/15477\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi and Amit Shah react as Congress party members arrested over doctored video circulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As campaigning intensifies for India\u2019s general elections, doctored videos involving top aides of Prime Minister Narendra Modi have triggered police investigations and the arrest of some workers from the rival Congress party. This election has been dubbed India\u2019s first \u201cAI election,\u201d with Modi warning last week about the use of fake voices to create purported statements by leaders, calling it a conspiracy \u201cto create tension in society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Indian police, already probing the spread of fake videos showing Bollywood actors criticizing Modi, are now investigating a doctored online clip that showed Home Minister Amit Shah saying the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will stop certain social guarantees for minorities, a sensitive issue for millions of voters.<\/p>\n<p>Shah took to X (formerly Twitter), posting his \u201coriginal\u201d and the edited \u201cfake\u201d speech, alleging \u2013 without providing evidence \u2013 that the main opposition Congress party was behind the video created to mislead the public. He stated that \u201cdirections have been issued to the police to address this issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Indian police arrested at least nine people, including six members of Congress\u2019 social media teams, in the states of Assam, Gujarat, Telangana, and New Delhi for circulating the fake video, according to police statements.<\/p>\n<p>Five of the Congress workers were released on bail, but the most high-profile arrest was made on Friday by the cybercrime unit of New Delhi police, who detained Arun Reddy, a Congress national social media coordinator, for sharing the video. Reddy has been sent into three-day custody, as Shah\u2019s ministry directly controls the police in New Delhi.<\/p>\n<p>The arrest has sparked protests from Congress workers, with many posting on X using the #ReleaseArunReddy tag. Congress lawmaker Manickam Tagore termed the arrest an example of \u201cauthoritarian misuse of power by the regime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As India\u2019s election campaign heats up, the spread of doctored videos has become a contentious issue, with investigations underway and political tensions rising over the use of manipulated media to sway public opinion.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\">\u092f\u0947 \u0932\u094b\u0917 \u092a\u0939\u0932\u0947 doctored video \u091a\u0932\u093e\u0924\u0947 \u0939\u0948\u0902 \u0914\u0930 \u092b\u093f\u0930 \u0915\u093e\u0930\u094d\u0930\u0935\u093e\u0908 \u0939\u094b\u0928\u0947 \u092a\u0930 \u0930\u094b\u0928\u0947 \u0932\u0917\u0924\u0947 \u0939\u0948\u0902\u0964<\/p>\n<p>First, they circulate doctored videos and then cry foul when legal action is initiated. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TPDemGl3tB\">pic.twitter.com\/TPDemGl3tB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Amit Shah (@AmitShah) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmitShah\/status\/1786452423218741725?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 3, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shah took to X (formerly Twitter), posting his \u201coriginal\u201d and the edited \u201cfake\u201d speech, alleging \u2013 without providing evidence \u2013 that the main opposition Congress party was behind the video created to mislead the public. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":366,"featured_media":15479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2937,3374,4384,4385,449,4387,9694,3673],"class_list":["post-15477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india","tag-amit-shah","tag-bharatiya-janata-party","tag-bjp","tag-inc","tag-india","tag-indian-national-congress","tag-lok-sabha-elections-2024","tag-narendra-modi"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}