A team of Chandigarh police on Tuesday (April 21, 2026) reached the Delhi office of Madhu Kishwar, noted writer, a day after she was booked for alleged circulation of forged and misleading content on social media.
Chandigarh police on April 21 registered First Information Report (FIR) against Ms. Kishwar among others, following a complaint by a city-based resident. The Police registered the case under various sections, including 196 (criminalises acts that promote enmity, hatred, or ill-will between groups based on religion, race, language), 336 (1) (forgery) and 356 (criminal defamation), of the Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita, besides sections 66 C, D and 67 of the Information Technology Act.
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Ms. Kishwar, in a social media post on ‘X’, had on Monday (April 20, 2026), said “Since the law forbids the police to visit or arrest women after dark and before sunrise, I spoke on phone to the leader of the delegation. She told me that their team has come to serve notice regarding an FIR registered against me in Chandigarh. I insisted that they go by the law and come in the morning.”
In a statement, the police said as per complainant, some forged and misleading social media posts and video clips with obscene text and content are being circulated by various social media users misidentifying the person in the video. This, the complainant alleged, “is a deliberate act of creating false electronic record using obscene words and phrases having knowledge and sufficient reason to believe that posts are misleading and false, with an intent to cause damage or injury. The video so circulated with intent to cause harm to reputation of a constitutional authority and to disturb public peace and tranquility, should be investigated and appropriate action be taken.”
