Bangalore:
The Karnataka Police has been cracking down on controversial posts in the election season and has summoned BJP chief JP Nadda and IT cell head Amit Malviya over a post on X made by the party's state unit.
A first information report (FIR) had been registered at the High Grounds Police station in Bengaluru in connection with the post and the two leaders were named in it. The investigating officer summoned them and they were given one week to appear.
The controversial post contained a video showing that the Congress was favoring Muslims in reservation at the expense of the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and the Other Backward Classes, an allegation made in the past by several top BJP leaders including Prime Minister Narendra Modes. few days.
Karnataka's chief election officer had asked the state BJP to remove the post and when that failed, the Election Commission on Tuesday sent a notice to X to remove the post.
Stating that the post was against the legal framework, the Election Commission said in its notice to X, “An FIR has already been registered in the matter. It is further brought to your attention that Chief Electoral Officer, Karnataka, through the Cyber Crime Division, Bengaluru, has already directed Act and Rule 3(1)(d) of the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules 2021. However, the post has not been removed yet.”
Attempting to access the post will now display a 'Page does not exist' error message on the microblogging platform.