Filmmaker Avinash Das shared a picture in which Pooja Singhal, who was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in a money laundering case, is seen whispering something to Amit Shah.
Filmmaker Avinash Das shared a picture in which Pooja Singhal, who was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in a money laundering case, is seen whispering something to Amit Shah.
Gujarat Police on Tuesday detained filmmaker Avinash Das from Mumbai for sharing a picture on Twitter of Union Home Minister Amit Shah with arrested IAS officer Pooja Singhal. An official gave this information.
The officer said that he is being brought to Ahmedabad for further action.
“We detained Das from Mumbai on Tuesday. He is being brought to Ahmedabad by our team for further legal process,” said DP Chudasama, assistant commissioner of police of the city crime branch.
The Ahmedabad Crime Branch had registered an FIR against the Mumbai-based filmmaker under sections 469 (forgery) of the Indian Penal Code as well as provisions of the Prevention of Insults to National Honor Act and the Information Technology Act, as he also posted . There is another picture of a woman wearing the national flag on her Instagram and Facebook.
The FIR against 46-year-old Das was registered in June after he shared a picture of Pooja Singhal, arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in a money laundering case, whispering something to Shah.
According to the FIR, in the caption of the photo, Das had claimed that the picture was taken a few days before Singhal’s arrest, while it was actually taken in 2017.
The crime branch had alleged that this was done with the intention of maligning Shah’s image.
The filmmaker was also booked for insulting national honor by sharing a picture of a woman wearing the national flag on his Instagram and Facebook accounts.
A sessions court here had in June dismissed Das’s anticipatory bail plea, saying he had deliberately claimed that Shah’s photo with Singhal was taken a few days before his arrest, with the intention of “maligning the home minister’s image”. Had to do.
The court, in its order, had said that the photograph of a woman draped in the national flag shows Das’s “mental deformity”.
Later, his anticipatory bail plea was also rejected by the Gujarat High Court, holding that Das had violated the provisions of the Prevention of Insults to National Honor Act by circulating a painting showing a man dressed in a tricolour. .
The Bombay High Court had also rejected Das’s transit anticipatory bail plea.
Das directed the 2017 film Anarkali of Aarah starring Swara Bhaskar, Sanjay Mishra and Pankaj Tripathi and the 2021 release Raat Baaki Hai.
He also directed a series called ‘Netflix’.He,