PLAINT AGAINST PORTAL FOR DEFAMATORY ARTICLE ON GUV

A police complaint has been filed with the cyber cell of the Mumbai Police against a news portal for publishing news that Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari facilitated travel of a model from Maharashtra to Dehradun via Delhi with the help of Army helicopter during lockdown, said Raj Bhavan on Thursday. The complaint was lodged against the portal with the cybercrime police station at Bandrakurla Complex in Mumbai.

The article claimed that the Governor recommended

THACKERAY, 8 OTHERS ELECTED UNOPPOSED Chief minister Uddhav Thackeray and eight others were announced as unopposed elected members of the legislative Council on Thursday. The nine members will take oath at Vidhan Bhavan on Monday. and facilitated travel of a model from Uttarakhand, who was stuck in Maharashtra due to lockdown. She was allegedly sent to Delhi in an Army helicopter and then taken to her home at Dehradun in an Army vehicle between April 24 and 25.

“No such recommendation was given by Raj Bhavan Mumbai,” said a BKC cyber police officer.

“The contents of the news are false, fabricated and based on nefarious design with an intent to malign the unblemished image of Hon’ble Governor,” states an official statement released by Raj Bhavan.

Besides Thackeray, Shiv Sena leader and deputy chairman of the legislative Council Neelam Gorhe; BJP’S Ramesh Karad, Gopichand Padalkar, Pravin Datke, Ranjitsinh Mohite Patil; NCP’S Shashikant Shinde and Amol Mitkari; and Congress’s Rajesh Rathod have been elected.