Defamation case filed against Congress backed Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mevani

Mumbai: Columnist Shefali Vaidya has filed a defamation case against Congress-backed Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mevani after he tweeted a morphed picture showing Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and Vaidya together along with a still from the Paresh Rawal starrer Hindi film ‘Oh My God!’ and drew a parallel between the two images. Mevani deleted the tweet hours later, hinting that he did not know the picture was photoshopped. “Seeing this (picture) I really want to say Oh My God! It has become too filmy. Did art predict real life? Like a film, these three are also big actors,” he had said, allegedly calling those in the picture ‘Dramebaaz’. According to reports, Vaidya has said that her photo was downloaded from her Facebook account and morphed along with the photos of Adityanath and Ravi Shankar.