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Maharashtra Cyber Police has registered a case against popular YouTuber Dhruv Rathee after a parody account allegedly posted a fake message about Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla’s daughter on Twitter. The cyber wing informed that “the post said that the Lok Sabha Speaker’s daughter had passed the Union Public Service Commission exam without appearing”.
Police said the message was posted by an account with the handle dhruvrahtee.
Based on a complaint from Birla’s relatives, police have booked the YouTuber under sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Samhita for defamation, intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace and malicious speech, as well as violation of the IT Act, officials said.
When it was pointed out that the alleged messages came from the parody account and not Rathee, the official said, “We are looking into the matter”. The parody account posted another tweet on Saturday which read: “As directed by @MahaCyber1, I have deleted all my posts and comments on Anjali Birla, I will like to apologise as I was unaware about the facts and copied someone else’ tweets and shared it.”.
