YouTube video shoot lands Mumbai content creator, 3 others at police station

According to a complaint lodged by Constable Devendra Thorat, he was part of a police team patrolling the area on Monday morning when they spotted a white Bolero jeep on the road opposite Whispering Heights residential society.

The vehicle looked like a Mumbai police vehicle and even sported the logo and motto of the Maharashtra Police, ‘Sadrakshanay Khalnigranay’. A person wearing a police uniform was standing on the road, and a cameraman was recording him, Thorat said in his complaint. A woman was standing nearby.

When the police approached the group and sought to know if they had police permission, the woman identified herself as Anjali, 25, a content creator, and said that they were shooting content for a YouTube channel, the complaint stated. The person wearing the police uniform was identified as Rishikesh Saxena, 32.

Anjali, Saxena, the cameraman and the driver of the vehicle had not taken any permission, Thorat stated. All four were taken to the Bangur Nagar police station where their statements were recorded.

“An FIR was registered against them under sections 205 (wearing the garb or carrying a token of a public servant with fraudulent intent), 223 (disobedience to a lawful order promulgated by a public servant) and 3(5) (common intention) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita,” Ravindra Avhad, Senior Inspector, Bangur Nagar police station, said.

The suspects were served notice and released. The police are checking where they got the police uniform and police logo from, Avhad added.