The Gujarat Police on Wednesday arrested filmmaker Avinash Das in a case related to sharing on Twitter a photo of Union Home Minister Amit Shah with arrested IAS officer Pooja Singhal.
A team of the Ahmedabad Crime Branch detained Das from his residence in Mumbai on Tuesday and brought him to Ahmedabad early on Wednesday.
"Das was officially arrested at 4 am on Wednesday. We are now scanning his social media accounts to check if he had posted some other offensive material in the past. We will produce him in a court in the afternoon to seek his remand," Ahmedabad Crime Branch's Deputy Commissioner of Police Chaitanya Mandlik said.
The FIR against 46-year-old Das was registered in June after he shared a photo showing Singhal, who had been arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in a money laundering case, whispering something to Shah.
As per the FIR, in a caption to the photo Das had claimed the picture was taken a few days before Singhal's arrest, while it was actually taken in 2017.The crime branch had alleged this was done with an intention to tarnish Shah's image.
The filmmaker was also booked for insulting national honour by sharing on his Instagram and Facebook accounts a photo of a woman wearing the national flag.
The crime branch in a release said it has found another tweet posted by Das which appears to be offensive and could hurt sentiments of Hindus.