{"id":351917,"date":"2022-07-19T17:40:57","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T12:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=351917"},"modified":"2022-07-19T18:49:18","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T13:19:18","slug":"avinash-das-arrested-amit-shah-pooja-singhal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/politics\/avinash-das-arrested-amit-shah-pooja-singhal\/","title":{"rendered":"Filmmaker Avinash Das detained for posting photo of Amit Shah with arrested IAS officer Pooja Singhal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Raat Baaki Hai filmmaker Avinash Das was arrested by the Gujarat police from Mumbai on Tuesday. He has been detained by the Ahmedabad crime branch for uploading a photo of Union Home Minister Amit Shah with arrested Jharkhand cadre IAS officer Pooja Singhal on Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

D P Chudasama, Ahmedabad’s crime branch’s Assistant Commissioner of Police said that Das has been brought to Ahmedabad for further legal action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An FIR was lodged against the 46-year-old filmmaker in June after he shared a picture where Singhal is whispering to Shah. He even wrote a caption alleging that the picture was clicked before the arrest of the IAS officer. Pooja Singhal had been arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with a money laundering case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Das has been arrested for giving fake information about Shah and Singhal’s photo. In a caption, he alleged that the picture was clicked a few days before Singhal’s arrest, whereas the FIR claims that it was actually taken in 2017. He has been arrested for intentionally tarnishing Shah’s image.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Earlier, the Mumbai-based filmmaker was also charged with defaming national honour by posting a picture of a woman wrapped in the national flag on his Facebook and Instagram accounts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Ahmedabad crime branch had registered an FIR against Das under Section 469 (forgery) of the Indian Penal Code as well as provisions of the Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act and the Information Technology Act, for also posting the photo of a woman wearing the national flag on his social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In June, a sessions court in Ahmedabad denied Das’ request for anticipatory bail, and later, the Gujarat High Court also rejected Das’ request for anticipatory bail for violating the Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act’s rules. The plea for transit anticipatory bail made by Das was also denied by the Bombay High Court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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D P Chudasama, Ahmedabad’s crime branch’s Assistant Commissioner of Police said that Das has been brought to Ahmedabad for further legal action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":351938,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Filmmaker Avinash Das detained for posting photo of Amit Shah with arrested IAS officer Pooja Singhal\n\n#AvinashDas #PoojaSinghal #AmitShah","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4,125714],"tags":[209,137749,5287,3629,130293],"yst_prominent_words":[21066,4129,38208,36147,4030,15748,29921],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2022\/07\/19173824\/avinash-das-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351917"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351917"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=351917"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=351917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}