Surprised?
So
are
we!
Mumbai
Police
Commissioner
Param
Bir
Singh
tells
a
leading
daily
that
after
the
sudden
demise
of
actor
Sushant
Singh
Rajput
on
June
14,
2020,
80,000
fake
accounts
were
created
on
social
media
to
demoralise
the
Mumbai
police
and
the
Maharashtra
government.
He
further
added
that
he
has
asked
the
cyber
cell
to
investigate
the
matter,
and
register
cases
under
the
Information
Technology
(IT)
Act.
Singh
told
HT,
"The
campaign
was
run
against
Mumbai
Police
to
demoralise
us
at
a
time
when
84
personnel
had
died
due
to
the
pandemic
and
over
6,000
were
infected
with
Covid-19.
This
was
a
motivated
campaign
with
a
vested
interest
to
malign
the
image
of
Mumbai
Police
and
derail
our
line
of
investigation."
He
further
added,
"Multiple
fake
accounts
on
social
media
were
created
to
target
Mumbai
Police
in
abusive
tones.
Our
cyber
cell
is
conducting
a
thorough
investigation
into
this
matter
and
all
those
found
violating
the
law
will
be
prosecuted
under
relevant
sections
of
the
Information
Technology
Act."
Notably,
ever
since
Sushant
breathed
his
last,
almost
every
day
a
huge
number
of
tweets
used
to
be
posted
on
Twitter
under
a
common
hashtag,
and
the
same
hashtag
used
to
trend
on
Twitter.
The
Police
Commissioner
also
reacted
to
the
reports
of
AIIMS
having
ruled
out
the
possibility
of
murder
in
the
case,
and
said,
"We
had
investigated
this
case
very
professionally.
The
CBI
(Central
Bureau
of
Investigation)
had
set
up
a
panel
of
AIIMS
doctors
who
have
justified
our
investigation,
the
findings
of
Cooper
Hospital
and
the
forensic
laboratory.
Except
for
a
few
people,
nobody
else
was
aware
of
our
investigation,
but
still,
many
have
criticised
it."