Overview
- Advocate Deepu C. R. filed the complaint on Friday after coming across the post on the Instagram handle named Kannada Chitraranga.
- The FIR cites Sections 192, 336(4) and 353 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita for provocation, forgery and public mischief.
- The video allegedly used AI tools and mimicked breaking-news graphics to depict Shivakumar pushing the chief minister during a meeting.
- The post carried a Kannada caption translated as “DKS shouldn’t have done this,” suggesting an intent to cast the leaders negatively.
- Police said the individual behind the account has not been identified and that inquiries into the clip’s creation and circulation are ongoing.