Mum police officers book EVM critic for ‘incorrect claims’

NEW DELHI: Acting on a problem from the Maharashtra chief electoral officer (CEO), the Mumbai Cyber Police on Saturday signed up an FIR versus foreign-based EVM basher Syed Shuja in connection with a video revealing him making “incorrect, unwarranted and dubious claims” that he might hack and tamper EVMs in the current state surveys by separating their frequency. Shuja was reserved under area 318( 4) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and stipulations 43(g) and 66D of the Information Technology Act, 2000. Shuja, who EC sources stated is based in a “3rd nation”, was last in the news for having actually attended to an interview in London on Jan 21, 2019, with a scarf covering his face as he made comparable claims that EVMs might be hacked by separating their frequency, which the 2014 LS surveys were rigged. He had, nevertheless, offered no evidence in assistance of his stunning claims. There are reports that Shuja remains in the United States. EC had actually taken major note of Shuja’s naughty claims at the London press occasion – where, remarkably, Congress’s Kapil Sibal existed – timed months ahead of the 2019 LS surveys. It had actually then directed the Delhi Police to submit an FIR versus him under Section 505( 1 )(b) of the Indian Penal Code, which handles acts of public mischief through blood circulation of material that might trigger worry or alarm in the general public. The Delhi Police has, through the ministry of external affairs, repe
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