Overview
- Gurugram police arrested the woman after a complaint and produced her in court following a video that a local resident said showed her claiming to cook beef for West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari.
- An FIR was registered under Section 299 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, the law that criminalizes deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage religious feelings.
- Investigators seized the accused’s mobile phone and preserved a deleted copy of the Facebook clip, and both have been sent for forensic examination to verify what the video shows.
- Local reporting and police records identify the accused as Jyotsna Bibi, a domestic worker from South Dinajpur who told investigators the footage was shot while she was cooking chicken and that she falsely said it was beef.
- A bail petition has been filed and the next hearing is set for June 8 with police opposing release on grounds she could influence witnesses, and the case could affect community tensions around beef and online speech.