The person was produced in a court docket and later remanded to two-day police custody.(Representational)
Jodhpur:
A 20-year-old man was arrested in Jodhpur on Saturday for posting a morphed image on social media of him receiving a faux cyber safety award from President Ram Nath Kovind that went viral on-line, police stated.
He was produced in a court docket and later remanded to two-day police custody.
The accused Rahul Rathi (20), a resident of Tiwari beneath Mathania police station limits of Jodhpur, is an info expertise engineering graduate and runs a cell phone company within the city.
Mathania police station SHO Gautam Dotasara stated one Ramesh had given a grievance on Friday that Rathi had posted a photograph on his Fb web page and WhatsApp purportedly receiving an honour from the President for “exemplary contribution in cyber safety”, which was faux.
“In his publish, which was uploaded on July 9 on his Fb account and WhatsApp, Rathi had talked about that the day had introduced him excessive pleasure and pleasure. Honourable President of India honoured him for his exemplary contribution within the subject of cyber safety at Rashtrapati Bhavan in Delhi,” stated Dotasara.
This picture of him receiving the “honour” from the President went viral with a number of feedback, likes and desires following the publish.
“Primarily based on the grievance, we filed an FIR in opposition to Rathi beneath applicable sections of the Indian Penal Code and Data Know-how Act and arrested him on Saturday,” stated Dotasara including that the accused was produced within the court docket, which despatched him to 2 days in police custody.
As per preliminary investigation, Rathi had discovered an image on the President’s official Twitter deal with, wherein Kovind acquired a portrait of himself by the newly-appointed Indian Ambassador to Finland Raveesh Kumar, who was until just lately the MEA spokesperson.
Apparently, Rathi eliminated the image of Raveesh Kumar and positioned his personal photograph by morphing the unique one.
He acquired the morphing achieved by some service supplier in Delhi and made a fee for the work by way of e-payment, the police officer stated.
The police officer added that Rathi had even gone to Delhi with a purpose to make his story look real looking and posted the image on his social media accounts earlier than returning house to earn folks’s belief.
“We’re additionally making an attempt to succeed in out to the service supplier, which morphed the unique photograph for Rathi in Delhi,” stated the officer.
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