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News agency lodges police complaint about fake tweet of Modi

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Press Trust of India New Delhi
News agency ANI today lodged a police complaint about a fake tweet in the name of Prime Minister Narendra Modi who is now in Germany.

After the tweet went viral, the agency said "this is a photoshopped tweet. ANI has got nothing to do with it. Legal action will be taken against those responsible."

Editor-in-Chief of ANI Sanjiv Prakash said the complaint has been lodged with the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Delhi Police.

"We have been subjected to a fake tweet and keeping with the provisions of law, we have filed a complaint with the cyber cell of the EOW," he said.
 

A top police official said it was inquiring into the matter.

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First Published: Apr 14 2015 | 8:57 PM IST

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