The man 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 pretend 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 underneath Mathania police station limits of Jodhpur, is an info know-how 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 Facebook web page and WhatsApp purportedly receiving an honour from the President for “exemplary contribution in cyber security”, which was pretend.
“In his post, which was uploaded on July 9 on his Facebook account and WhatsApp, Rathi had mentioned that the day had brought him extreme pleasure and pride. Honourable President of India honoured him for his exemplary contribution in the field of cyber security at Rashtrapati Bhavan in Delhi,” stated Dotasara.
This photograph of him receiving the “honour” from the President went viral with a number of feedback, likes and needs following the submit.
“Based on the complaint, we filed an FIR against Rathi under appropriate sections of the Indian Penal Code and Information Technology 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, during which Kovind acquired a portrait of himself by the newly-appointed Indian Ambassador to Finland Raveesh Kumar, who was until not too long ago the MEA spokesperson.
Apparently, Rathi eliminated the image of Raveesh Kumar and positioned his personal {photograph} by morphing the unique one.
He obtained the morphing carried out by some service supplier in Delhi and made a fee for the work by means of e-payment, the police officer stated.
The police officer added that Rathi had even gone to Delhi so as to make his story look practical and posted the image on his social media accounts earlier than returning residence to earn folks’s belief.
“We are also trying to reach out to the service provider, which morphed the original photograph for Rathi in Delhi,” stated the officer.
(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV employees and is revealed from a syndicated feed.)
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