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BJP person Dushyant Kumar Gautam has urged the Uttarakhand authorities to bid the removal of definite audio and video contented connected societal media implicating him successful the Ankita Bhandari execution case, calling them an effort to malign his image.
The enactment affairs in-charge successful the State made the petition successful a missive to Uttarakhand Home Secretary Shailesh Bagoli connected Thursday (December 25, 2025).
"I petition you to instruct the societal media platforms and quality channels progressive to region specified worldly and forestall the dissemination of specified worldly straight oregon indirectly," helium wrote.
Mr. Gautam besides submitted a database of societal media and quality channels that helium said made "false and malicious" allegations against him with the volition of "tarnishing and damaging his reputation."
"Recently, it has travel to my cognition that nether a transgression conspiracy, immoderate unscrupulous transgression elements person created a fake and fabricated audio recording, and to further this, they are circulating specified hateful, malicious, and mendacious worldly connected media and societal media," the BJP nationalist wide caput said.
The contention stems from a viral video and an alleged audio speech of a pistillate named Urmila Sanawar, who claims to beryllium the woman of erstwhile MLA Suresh Rathore from Haridwar's Jwalapur.
In the video, Sanawar alleged that a idiosyncratic named 'Gattu' was progressive successful the execution of Ankita Bhandari, a receptionist astatine a edifice who was murdered successful 2022 by her leader implicit refusal to render intersexual favours.
The Congress has demanded a CBI enquiry into the caller allegations nether the supervision of a sitting oregon retired justice of the Supreme Court.
The BJP, which is astatine the receiving extremity of the allegation, called Sanawar a pistillate progressive successful questionable societal activities.
BJP's Suresh Rathore earlier dismissed the video arsenic AI-generated.
