The Maharashtra State Government is in no mood to leave anyone who allegedly peddled fake news and earned on the name of late Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput. Going by the reports of Midday, Mumbai Police had registered a case against a Bihar-based YouTuber for allegedly peddling fake news in Sushant Singh Rajput's case and defaming the Maharashtra State Government.
Advocate Dharmendra Mishra of the Shiv Sena's legal cell had filed a case against the YouTuber who owns the channel 'FF News'. Accused, Rashid Siddiqui, 25, is a civil engineer from Bihar. The police have filed a case on charges of defamation, public mischief and intentional insult. The court has granted Siddiqui anticipatory bail and asked him to cooperate in the probe. His posts against Mumbai police, Maharashtra government, minister Aaditya Thackeray and actor Akshay Kumar were viewed by lakhs of netizens. Kumar served a Rs 500-crore defamation notice to Siddiqui on Tuesday.
Going by the defamation case, Siddiqui had made claims like the actors being unhappy about Rajput having bagged the film MS Dhoni, having secret meetings with the Mumbai police and Aaditya Thackeray regarding his death, and having helped Rhea Chakraborty escape to Canada.
The news portal also shared the earnings of the YouTube channel:
.April: $96 (Rs 7,120)
. May: $04 ( Rs 296)
. June: $515 (Rs 38,200)
. July: $3,667 (Rs 2,75,005)
. August: $7,518 (Rs 5,57,658)
. September: $8,775 (Rs 6,50,898)
. October: $3,211 (Rs 2,38,180)
. November: $484 (Rs 35,901)