Pramesh S Jain & Yogesh K Porwar
The Vidhana Soudha police have registered a case against Unknown people for circulated fake audio clip claiming to be the voice of Congress MLA,KM Shivalinge Gowda,to defame him which went viral on social media .
The audio that went viral the past week claiming to be the voice of Mr.Gowda talking about the distribution of money to influence the voters in Hassan during the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
In his complaint with the police,the MLA from Arasikere alleged that the audio with his “cloned voice”was leaked to the media on October 17 to tarnish his and his party image.
Based on Gowda’s complaint,the case was booked under Sections 67(publishing or transmitting obscene material in electronic form),66C(identity theft)and 66D (cheating by personation by using computer resource)of the Information Technology (IT) Act and Sections 336 (forgery),351(criminal intimidation) and 353 (statements conducing to Public mischief) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).
The police have initiated a probe to track the source of the audio clip which was uploaded .
