NEW DELHI: The Gujarat police arrested Trinamool Congress spokesman, Saket Gokhale from the Jaipur airport on charges of spreading ‘fake news’ about Indian PM Modi’s expenditures over his Morbi visit where a bridge collapse had claimed 135 lives.
According to reports gathered by MM news from local media sources, the Ahmedabad cyber crime team detained Gokhale around 2am outside Jaipur airport in Rajasthan, after he arrived on a flight from Delhi. He was taken to Ahmedabad, where he was formally arrested.
Local Police claimed that they found Saket Gokhale had shared ‘false information’ of RTI, in which he had shared newspaper cuttings, stating that Rs 30 crore were spent for Prime Minister Narendra Modi visit to Morbi, after the bridge collapse in which 135 persons were killed.
Saket had shared the details of various expenses, and under the event management head Rs 5.5 crore expenditure was shown.
Cyber Crime police after checking with the local authorities, found that no such information was shared under RTI, so the cyber crime registered a case against Saket Gokhale. It was found that after he posted the false information, many others had retweeted it and even shared some unverified ‘documents’.
Police have brought Gokhale to Gujarat on a transit arrest and will show his arrest in Gujarat later in the day and produced before the court.
