Delhi Police on Saturday arrested a 24-year-old man in reference to the deepfake video of actor Rashmika Mandanna. The video had gone viral on social media in November final sparking widespread outrage.
Police stated the accused, recognized as Eemani Naveen who’s suspected to be the creator of the video, was arrested from Andhra Pradesh and has been delivered to Delhi. He’s being interrogated.
In response to experiences, Naveen is a digital marketer. He was nabbed after Delhi Police examined over 500 social media accounts related to the deepfake video.
In November, quickly after the video went viral, Delhi Police’s Particular Cell had filed an FIR beneath Indian Penal Code sections 465 (punishment for forgery) and 469 (forgery for function of harming fame) and sections 66C and 66E of the Info Know-how Act.
The cops had additionally written to Meta to get the URL and different particulars to determine the accused who made the video and put it on the social media.
The Delhi Police motion was primarily based on a criticism obtained from Delhi Fee for Girls (DCW), after the Fee took suo-moto cognisance of the deepfake video row.
Naveen reportedly advised police that he was a fan of Rashmika and used to run a fan web page of the actor. The accused additional stated that he had created the video to achieve followers on Instagram.
Deepfakes are made when an individual in an present picture or video is changed with another person’s likeness utilizing expertise like synthetic intelligence, principally to advertise faux information.
Within the controversial video, in keeping with experiences, the face of a British-Indian celeb was edited and altered with Mandanna’s face.
