BENGALURU: (May 21) An FIR has been registered against BJP IT cell head Amit Malviya and Editor-in-Chief of Republic TV, Arnab Goswami for allegedly running false information, police said.
The case was registered at High Grounds police station on Tuesday, based on the complaint from the Indian Youth Congress’s legal cell head Shrikant Swaroop B N against the duo under section 192 (wantonly giving provocation with an intent to cause riot) and 352 (Intentional insult to provoke breach of peace) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, they said.
Swaroop accused Malviya and Goswami of “masterminding a heinous and criminally motivated campaign to disseminate patently false information.” PTI
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