BENGALURU, 4 MARCH

Three people have been arrested for allegedly raising 'Pakistan Zindabad' slogans in Vidhana Soudha corridors on 27 February.

The arrested are Iltaj, a resident of Delhi; Munawar, a resident of RT Nagar in Bengaluru; and Mohammed Shafi Nashipudi, a resident of Byadagi in Haveri district, a police officer with Vidhana Soudha station said on Monday.

Some people allegedly shouted pro-Pakistan slogans after the victory of Congress leader Syed Naseer Hussain in Rajya Sabha elections. “A total of 26 people were under the scanner for allegedly raising pro-Pakistan slogans. Seven of them were questioned and voice samples of three were sent to government-run Forensic Science Laboratory,” the police officer said.

Meanwhile, Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee filed a complaint against BJP State President BY Vijayendra and the BJP head of social media department for curating fake FSL reports. The complaint was filed at Cyber, Economic and Narcotics crime police station in the Bengaluru West division. As per an FSL report published in BJP’s social media handle on the ‘X’ platform, the slogan of Naseer Saab Zindabad was changed to Pakistan Zindabad, the complaint said.

BJP posted on its social media handle an investigation report prepared by private laboratory Clue4 Evidence Forensic Investigations and signed by audio forensic examiner Phaneendar BN on behalf of City-based 'Samvada Foundation', a not-for-profit organisation allegedly linked to the RSS. In his opinion, Phaneendar said the video is "not tampered/doctored in between and is a result of a single capture."

Home Minister G Parameshwara sought to know whether the private person who prepared the report had his laboratory and had done the analysis. The report of the State government's own FSL will be made public once it is submitted. "If the report says such a slogan was raised, then we will take action immediately."

BJP workers staged a protest at Town Hall on Monday against the raising of alleged pro-Pakistan slogans.

IT-BT Minister Priyank Kharge said this was not an ordinary case because it is claimed that an 'anti-national' slogan was shouted. He said, "The government should have answered, but the BJP getting the forensic report from a private institution and making it public is an anti-national act." -Salar News/PTI