Filmmaker Avinash Das Detained For Sharing Amit Shah's Photo With Arrested Bureaucrat

The Ahmedabad crime branch had registered an FIR against Avinash Das under section 469 (forgery) as well as provisions of IT Act and Prevention of Insults to National Honour.

The Gujarat police detained filmmaker Avinash Das from Mumbai on Tuesday in a case related to sharing on Twitter a photo of Union Home Minister Amit Shah's photo with arrested IAS officer Pooja Singhal, an official said.

He was being brought to Ahmedabad for further action, the official said.

"We detained Das from Mumbai on Tuesday. He is being brought to Ahmedabad by our team for further legal process," the city crime branch's Assistant Commissioner of Police D P Chudasama said.