Bengaluru: Based on the complaint filed by an advocate from the city, cops have booked unidentified persons who allegedly defamed chief minister DK Shivakumar through a ‘Kumaraswamy for CM’ post on social media.The FIR was registered with Sadashivnagar police station under different sections of the IT Act.According to the complaint, the post was uploaded on the official Facebook page of JD(S). “The post, under the tagline ‘Kumaraswamy For CM’ with a fake video generated by artificial intelligence, shows chief minister DK Shivakumar moving around the city at night with cloth wrapped on the face and pasting posters on the wall. However, the video is said to have been deleted soon after the FIR was lodged,” a senior police officer said.“We have issued notice to the persons who are in charge of the Facebook account of JD(S), asking them to provide details of the post, video and persons who uploaded it,” an investigating officer said.
