Case registered as YouTube video claims IPS officer caught ex-CM Uma Bharti taking bribe
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Bhopal: Following the release of a video on YouTube claiming that an IPS officer in disguise apprehended former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Uma Bharti accepting a bribe, police have opened a case, an official said on Tuesday.
Assistant sub-inspector Lal Bahadur Singh stated that the Bhopal police's crime branch filed a case against the unnamed individual who posted the video to YouTube after receiving a complaint from Bharti's personal secretary.
According to the first information report, the video showed pictures of Bharati and Karnataka cadre IPS officer Roopa Divakar Moudgil with a misleading, baseless and objectionable commentary in a male voice.
The 40-second video has the narrator claiming that the IPS officer went to Bharti's residence disguised as a maid and arrested her while she received kickbacks from a contractor, the FIR stated.
The complainant stated that this was a deliberate effort to malign the senior BJP leader's image.
The official said a case has been registered under sections 336 (4) (forging false documents or false electronic records causing damage or injury) and 356 (2) (defamation) of the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita (BNS).
Bharti was chief minister of Madhya Pradesh from December 2003 to August 2004.
With PTI inputs