Akshay Kumar files Rs. 5 billion defamation suit against YouTuber Rashid Siddiqui
Mumbai: Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar has reportedly filed a defamation suit of five billion rupees against a YouTuber who brought up his name while spreading fake news.
The YouTuber identified as Rashid Siddiqui who brought Kumar’s name in the Sushant Singh Rajput case has reportedly been served a notice of Rs. 500 crores.
Siddiqui was earlier arrested for spreading fake news and dragging the name of Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and his son, Minister Aditya Thackeray, in the case.
The YouTuber used digital media to allegedly mislead people and spread fake news about several celebrities.
He named Kumar on several occasions in his videos and leveled various allegations. In one instance, Siddiqui claimed that Akshay was unhappy with Rajput getting big films like 'MS Dhoni: The Untold Story', and alleged that the actor had "secret meetings" with Aditya Thackeray and the Mumbai Police.
It has been reported that Siddiqui, a civil engineer from Bihar, has been accused of defamation, public mischief, and intentional insult.
Siddiqui had also linked Kumar with the late actor Rajput's girlfriend, actress Rhea Chakraborty, claiming that the actor helped her to escape to Canada.
It is believed that Siddiqui earned around Rs1.5 million in a span of four months and his subscribers also grew from 200,000 to over 300,000.
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Goa police arrest man from Bengaluru for cyber bullying woman and extortion
Panaji (PTI): The Goa cyber crime police have arrested a man from Bengaluru on charges of cyber bullying a woman and extortion after posting a fake job advertisement online, an official said on Sunday.
Following a complaint by the Goa-based woman, the cyber crime team arrested the accused, Mohan Raj V (29), on Saturday after laying a trap, a police spokesperson said.
The victim in her complaint claimed the accused published a fake job advertisement for a vacancy at a foreign bank and contacted her through a chatting app, he said.
"The accused lured her into attending an online interview via video call, during which some persons, posing as representatives of the company, coerced her to undress, recorded the video and took screenshots," the spokesman said.
The accused then began to blackmail the woman, demanding sexual favours to delete the compromising material, he said.
The woman alleged that the accused harassed her for the past two months and demanded she meet him in Bengaluru or else he would make her videos and pictures public.
A team led by Superintendent of Police Rahul Gupta travelled to Bengaluru with the victim and laid a trap.
"After extensive efforts and a long chase, the accused was apprehended when he arrived to meet the victim," the spokesperson said.
Police said the accused has confessed to his crime.
"The chats and videos of the victim recorded on the phone of the accused were recovered. The phone will be sent for a cyber forensic examination," he said.
The investigation suggested the accused created fake accounts using VPN phone numbers and posted fraudulent job offers targeting female victims.
"They (the arrested person and others) randomly contacted women, induced them to participate in online interviews with promises of high salary packages, and then recorded their objectionable images and videos. These recordings were subsequently used to blackmail the victims for sexual gratification," he said.
After the woman's complaint, the police on April 30 registered a case against unidentified persons.
Following the arrest, the accused was booked under Indian Penal Code sections 354 A (sexual harassment), 384 (extortion) and provisions of the Information Technology Act, the police said.
