Lawfare, Summons/Notices – Journalists

The Delhi Police on Friday said that they had filed a first information report against journalist Vinod Dua for allegedly misreporting the communal violence that took place in the Capital in February and spreading fake news through his YouTube show, PTI reported.

The FIR against Dua was filed on a complaint by Bharatiya Janata Party spokesperson Naveen Kumar. The BJP leader accused Dua of spreading fake news through the “The Vinod Dua Show” on YouTube. Kumar also alleged that Dua had said the central government had done nothing to stop the violence in Delhi and called Prime Minister Narendra Modi “toothless”.

The complainant also referred to one of the episodes of Dua’s YouTube, where he talks about former Congress leader Jyotiraditya Scindia joining the BJP and called his remarks degrading. He also alleged that Dua had said that the Vyapam scam took place in Madhya Pradesh when the saffron party was in power.