FIR has been registered against those account holders, says official

Claiming they have been vindicated by the AIIMS report on the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput, which termed it suicide, the Maharashtra government and Mumbai police have said they will take action against fake social media accounts that trolled and defamed the Mumbai police in this case.
Maharashtra Home Minister and senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Anil Deshmukh too demanded an apology from the Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for defaming and insulting the State and its police. He questioned former CM Devendra Fadnavis, who is the BJPs in-charge for Bihar election, as to whether he will campaign for Bihars former DGP Gupteshwar Pandey, who defamed Maharashtra in the case.
Several social media account holders are trolling the Mumbai Police Commissioner on different platforms like Twitter, Instagram and Facebook and are using abusive language against him and the force. Hence, an FIR has been registered against those account holders under 67 of IT Act. Most of these accounts are fake and we will be taking action against all those fake account holders, said Rashmi Karandikar, DCP, Cyber Crime, Mumbai police.
Another FIR has been registered against culprits who used a morphed image of the official Twitter account of Mumbai Police commissioner. We have started the probe in both matters, said Ms. Karandikar.
Mumbais Commissioner of Police too had pointed to fake social media accounts being used to run propaganda against the force. According to sources, over 80,000 such accounts have been identified from foreign countries and promoted conspiracy and targeted the State government, especially Mumbai police.
Mr. Deshmukh, addressing a press conference on Wednesday, slammed the BJP for running anti-Maharashtra propaganda under the disguise of seeking justice for Rajput. Citing a report from the University of Michigan, which analysed the Twitter trends and social media posts on the case, he said that the report pinpointed the BJP and certain news channels for running a propaganda campaign against the State and Mumbai police.
The BJP not only tried to defame Maharashtra police but also the State. It is sad that Devendra Fadnavis, who led the Home Department for past five years, questioned the efficiency of Mumbai police. It was a plot against Maharashtra. An attempt to defame the State, said Mr. Deshmukh.
He added that Mr. Pandey was going to fight election in Bihar. I want to ask Devendra Fadnavis as to whether he will campaign for Pandey who insulted Maharashtra?
People who try to defame the State and insulted Maharashtra must apologise to the people of Maharashtra. If they dont, people will not forgive them. Those who defamed the State will be probed through cyber cell of the State police, he said, demanding the CBI to make public the report on the death of the actor.
SSR controversy was nothing but a conspiracy to gain political mileage for Bihar election. It was done by one political party, he said.
Maharashtra Congress too welcomed the action against fake social media profiles for spreading propaganda in the Rajput death case. Soon, will share very crucial info to government with respect to social media accounts which were solely generated by the BJP IT team to promote conspiracy theory in the SSR case and defamed Maharashtra, said Sachin Sawant, Maharashtra Congress general secretary and spokesperson.