The Haryana court issued an arrest warrant for journalist Deepak Chaurasia for broadcasting manipulated videos of an underage girl.
A post was shared on social media claiming that journalist DeepakChaurasia had been arrested on charges of raping an underage girl. The post shared a video showing a group of people accusing Deepak Chaurasia of ruining the life of a 9-year-old girl. Let’s verify the claim in the post.
Allegation: Journalist DeepakChaurasia was recently arrested on charges of raping a 9-year-old girl.
Fact: The POCSO court in Gurugram recently issued an arrest warrant for DeepakChaurasia in a 2013 case for allegedly broadcasting manipulated and altered videos of a 10-year-old girl and her family and linking it to sexual assault. An arrest warrant was issued for Chaurasia for March 3, 2023. The arrest warrant was not issued on charges of raping an underage girl. Therefore, the claim in the post is misleading.
While investigating whether presenter DeepakChaurasia had recently been arrested for raping an underage girl, we found a tweet from legal news outlet Live Law regarding an arrest warrant for Deepak Chaurasia in a 2013 case.
A court in Harayana has again issued a warrant of arrest against Journalist-News Anchor Deepak Chaurasiya (@DChaurasia2312) in a 2013 case for allegedly airing 'morphed, edited & obscene' videos of a 10-year-old girl and her family and linking the same to a sexaul assault case. pic.twitter.com/2LgMM8UYoF
— Live Law (@LiveLawIndia) February 7, 2023
Another arrest warrant for journalist and news anchor Deepak Chaurasiya
The ‘Live Law’ tweet read: “A court in Haryana has issued another arrest warrant for journalist and news anchor DeepakChaurasiya (@DChaurasia2312) in a 2013 case alleging he ‘modified, edited and made obscene’ videos of 10 12-year-old girl and her family and links them to a sexual assault case.”
Non-bail arrest warrant for journalist Deepak Chaurasia
On December 7, 2023, the POCSO court in Gurugram issued a non-bail arrest warrant for journalist DeepakChaurasia, after he failed to appear in court on the day of the hearing (February 4, 2023) due to a previously scheduled interview with Prime Minister of Uttar Pradesh Yogi Adityanath A previous judgment and injunctions issued in the case clearly named Deepak Chaurasia as one of 8 defendants accused of allegedly using transformed and manipulated video of a 10-year-old girl and linked the video to a sexual assault. Proceedings against the self-proclaimed human god Asaram Bapu.
Deepak Chaurasia Allegations
A previous arrest warrant issued for Deepak Chaurasia in this case in November 2022 can be viewed here and News Nation for broadcasting a manipulated and distorted video of his 10-year-old niece.
The petitioner accused these news channels and journalists of obscenely and vulgarly portraying his niece and falsely portraying his wife as an immoral sex trafficker named Shilpi. The petitioner did not accuse Deepak Chaurasia of raping his 10-year-old niece. Deepak Chaurasia has not yet been arrested and is still showing the program “Kasam Samvidhan Ki” on the channel “Zee News”.
To sum it up, the Gurugram POCSO issued an arrest warrant for Deepak Chaurasia on charges of broadcasting manipulated videos of an underage girl, not on charges of raping a 9-year-old girl.
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