In a new dimension to the Sushant Singh Rajput death case which has reached a dead end after the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) ruled out murder and said it was a case of “suicide”, the cyber crime sleuths of the Mumbai have launched thorough investigations into 80,000 alleged fake accounts created by “vested interests” on various social media platforms to “discredit” the Mumbai police force, its Commissioner Param Bir Singh and “derail “ the investigations into the actor's death.
After having been at the receiving end of vicious criticism over what was described as the “shoddy” manner in which the city police officials investigated the Sushant Singh Rajput death case, Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh has ordered an investigations into thousands of alleged fake accounts on various social media platforms including Twitter, Facebook and Instagram across countries and continents.
Confirming the development, Mumbai’s Deputy Commissioner of Police (Cyber Crime) Rashmi Karandikar said on Tuesday: “Several social media account holders are trolling the Mumbai Police commissioner on different platforms like Twitter, Instagram and Facebook and are using abusive language against him and the force” Karandikar said that while one FIR had been registered against the fake account holders under section 67 of Information Technology Act, another FIR had been launched against a person who had allegedly used morphed image Mumbai Police Commissioner’s office twitter account.