BJP files police complaint on morphed photo, demands arrest

The BJP today lodged a police complaint against Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee, Subrata Bakshi and Derek O'Brien alleging that they were responsible for the use of a morphed picture of Union Home minister Rajnath Singh and demanded their immediate arrest.
BJP state spokesperson Joy Prakash Majumdar along with other leaders and party workers met Joint Commissioner (Crime) of Kolkata Police, Debasish Boral at the Police Headquarter at Lalbazar and lodged a complaint against the three TMC leaders.
"Today we have lodged a complaint with the Kolkata Police in connection with the morphed picture showing Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh offering sweets to CPI(M) leader Prakash Karat.

"In our complaint we have held three - TMC party chairperson Mamata Banerjee, all India general secretary Subrata Bakshi and national spokesperson Derek O'Brien who held yesterday's press conference responsible for the entire episode and demanded their immediate arrest," Majumdar told PTI.
"Derek O'Brien held yesterday's conference after he was instructed by Mamata Banerjee. So it's clear it was whose brainchild," Majumdar added describing the incident as "unprecedented" in the history of the country's politics.
"We have seen so many things happening in Indian politics but TMC has broken all records and stooped to such a low level," he said.

"We have received a complaint from the BJP today. They have lodged a complaint with our Cyber Crime section. We are looking into the matter," Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Debasish Boral said.

Meanwhile, Left Front Chariman Biman Bose also demanded that Derek O'Brien should be arrested in connection with the morphed photograph incident.
Stating that if Jadavpur University Prof Ambikesh Mohapatra could be arrested for circulating one spoof on Mamata Banerjee and the then Railway Minister Mukul Roy then "why will not Derek O'Brien be arrested in this case? Bose questioned.
"If Ambikesh Mohapatra can be arrested for a circulating one photo which he had not created, I think Derek O'Brien must be arrested," Bose said.

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After the BJP lodged a complaint with the police against TMC leaders, the TMC said as the morphed picture was removed and an apology was sought, the matter should end there.
"As soon as our research team found out that one of the pictures used was morphed, it was immediately removed. We have even sought an apology for the mistake from our end. We think the matter should end here," TMC vice-president Mukul Roy said.
"We did not morph the picture. It was already present in an website from where we had used it," Roy said.