FIR Filed Against Sanjay Kumar: The Nagpur police have registered an FIR against Sanjay Kumar of the Center for the Study of Development Society (CSDS), which came into controversy over the social media posts related to Maharashtra elections. This action has been taken under several sections of the Indian Justice Code (BNS), including sections 175, 353 (1) (b), 212 and 340 (1) (2). These sections are related to misinformation and possible violations related to election.
Nagpur Police have registered an FIR against Sanjay Kumar, an official from the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), following controversial social media posts related to Maharashtra elections. The FIR has been filed under multiple sections of the BNS, including… pic.twitter.com/FY1m0fYXoq
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What is the whole matter?
Maharashtra assembly elections In the number of voters in the number of voters, Sanjay Kumar shared the data on X. Two days later, Sanjay Kumar deleted his tweets and apologized for this. He wrote on X, ‘I am honest for the tweet posted related to Maharashtra elections. There was a mistake when comparing data from 2024 Lok Sabha and 2024 Assembly. Our data team incorrectly read the data given. The tweet has been removed. My intention was not to spread any kind of wrong information.
Actually Sanjay Kumar had earlier claimed that last Lok Sabha elections And between this year’s Maharashtra elections, the number of voters in Nashik West and Hingna assembly constituencies has increased by 47% and 43% respectively. He also said that the number of voters in Ramtek and Devalali seats has declined by 38% and 36% respectively.
Politics fiercely on Sanjay Kumar’s tweet
These claims of Sanjay Kumar gave the Congress a new basis for accusing the BJP of ‘vote fraud’ and the top leaders of the party shared it fiercely. The BJP retaliated after Sanjay Kumar apologized. Senior BJP leader and IT chief of the party, Amit Malviya, said that the institute which was trusted by the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha to make his allegations, has now assumed that his figures were wrong. He demanded an apology from the Congress leader, saying, ‘Where is Rahul Gandhi and the Congress standing, who shamelessly targeted the Election Commission and also described the real voters as fake? This is shameful. ‘