Ahmedabad: Gujarati news channel ABP Asmita has filed complaint in police station here against unidentified person who used screen shot of breaking news module of channel and morphed fake news by using ABP Asmita logo.

Unidentified person added fake news regarding Patidar community and Amit Shah to breaking news module. Later the morphed screen shots were circulated via social media channels such as Whatsapp and Faceboook.

ABP Asmita in its complaint mentioned that Amit Shah had not given any such statement to the channel and such news was never relayed on TV. The logo and appearance of channel were misused in order to disturb public order and create clash among communities.

The complaint has been filed under epc 171(g), 505(1)(b) and IT act section 66(c), 66(d), people’s representative act section 127(c).

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