Police arrest man who runs pro-Congress X account in Amit Shah fake video case

The Delhi Police on Friday arrested a Congress member for allegedly uploading and circulating a fake video of Union Home Minister Amit Shah. The accused, Arun Reddy, handles the 'Spirit of Congress' account on X.

The Delhi Police Special Cell earlier registered an FIR after the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), which comes under the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), filed a complaint about the doctored video of Amit Shah where his statements indicating a commitment to abolish quotas for Muslims on religious grounds



in Telangana were changed to make it seem that he was advocating scrapping of all reservations.

Arun Reddy is the national coordinator of Congress's social media cell and its chairperson is Supriya Shrinate.

According to police sources, Arun Reddy is accused of making and circulating the video. He also allegedly tried to delete evidence from his mobile phone.

The Delhi Police seized his mobile phone and sent it for investigation to the forensics department, police sources said.