Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. PHOTO: REUTERS
Indian police have registered a case against All India Bakchod (AIB) co-founder Tanmay Bhat for insulting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on social media.
The famous Indian comedy group faced backlash from the government and police after their Twitter account posted a picture of the Indian prime minister with Snapchat’s dog filter.
It all began when a photo of Modi’s lookalike surfaced on the internet and AIB used it to show that the prime minister was applying the filter with the caption: ‘dog filter is lyf’.
Within minutes the tweet went viral, however, the comedy group had to delete it when Modi’s supporters ran amok with criticism on social media.
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Mumbai Police registered the FIR under Indian section 500 (defamation) of IPC and 67 IT act (Punishment for publishing or transmitting obscene material in electronic form), Hindustan Times reported.
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After they deleted the tweet, social media users started trolling the group for being scared to make jokes in India. Many others deplored their sense of humour for making fun of the Indian prime minister in bad taste.
lol. exactly. give them a dose of their hypocrisy in their faces.
— Varun Oberoi (@varun_oberoi) July 14, 2017
@AllIndiaBakchod Congrats for getting busted duffers! Zaban ko lagam do! #AIB #BUSTED
— 𝕾𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖆𝖗𝖙𝖍 𝕽𝖊𝖉𝖉𝖞 (@don4every1) July 14, 2017
ALL INDIA BAKCHOD GROUP POSING FOR A GROUP PHOTO. pic.twitter.com/PDKyqXyWPX
— Rajesh Patel (@Rajesh45678910) July 14, 2017
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