Overview
- Speaker Vijender Gupta demanded explanations within 48 hours from Punjab’s DGP, the Special DGP for Cyber Crime, and the Jalandhar police commissioner for using Assembly footage in a criminal case.
- Jalandhar Police registered an FIR at the Cyber Cell on a complaint by Iqbal Singh over the uploading and sharing of an edited clip sourced from Kapil Mishra’s social media post.
- The Punjab Forensic Science Laboratory’s January 9 report found deliberate doctoring of the social media video and said the contested word was absent from the audio examined.
- AAP said the BJP misrepresented Atishi’s remarks with false subtitles, while BJP leaders accused her of insulting Guru Tegh Bahadur and demanded punitive action in the Delhi Assembly.
- Street politics intensified as Delhi BJP protested near AAP headquarters and AAP staged statewide demonstrations in Punjab, while Punjab Congress leaders claimed they were booked for sharing the clip.