Photoshopped gun means charges dropped in Qns.

A clumsy Photoshop of a gun wrongly led a Queens man to be charged with threatening to shoot a former business partner, his lawyer said Friday.

Prosecutors asked a judge to drop the case against Partah Gupta, 44, who was arrested in October on charges he threatened Shah Nawaz. But the Queens DA’s reason for seeking to have the case dismissed was not made clear.

Gupta and his lawyer say the image of a gun clumsily Photoshopped into a picture of Gupta is the likeliest reason for the case’s dismissal.

The picture in question shows Gupta sporting a big smile in a room with a tiny pistol on a bed next to him.

“He Photoshopped it . ... He took a picture of my Facebook [image] and he put the pistol in the picture and then showed the [police] precinct,” a frustrated Gupta told the Daily News in an interview before the charges were dropped.

“This case is bulls---,” Gupta said.

“It was the most obvious photoshop job since the [Microsoft] application ‘Paint’ was created,” said Cary London, the attorney who represented Gupta.

London said the cops and prosecutors who used the photo as evidence to back Gupta’s arrest must have been “blind.”

Gupta had been charged with menacing, harassment and aggravated harassment.

Nawaz accused Gupta, who had previously been a business partner, of threatening him at a music festival where Gupta, a musician, was performing, according to the initial criminal complaint.

While at the show, the complaint said, Gupta and another person approached Nawaz. When the unidentified man pushed Nawaz, the complaint said, Gupta

pointed a gun at him.

“I will kill you immediately on the spot. Wherever and when I get an opportunity, I will shoot you to kill,” Gupta allegedly told Nawaz in a text.

But London claims that Nawaz never provided the text message to prosecutors.

When asked about it, according to London, Nawaz told them that he received the text from a private number.

“He said that came from a private number. You can’t get texts from a private number,” London said.

Prosecutors sought the case’s dismissal on Wednesday.

“I’ve never seen a case I’ve been more disgusted by the DA’s office with.

“They should be embarrassed. It’s the most fake gun I’ve ever seen,” London said.

Nawaz could not immediately be reached for comment.

A spokesman for Queens DA Melinda Katz said they could not comment on a dismissed and sealed case.

Partah Gupta was arrested in October over an alleged threat he made against a former business partner, but charges were dropped when a photo submitted into evidence turned out to be a profile picture of Gupta (left) with a gun photoshopped into the image (right).