Bengaluru: Head of Congress’ Social Media and Digital Communication and former parliamentarian from Karnataka Divya Spandana (Ramya) has been booked for sedition for her tweet against Prime Minister Modi.

The complaint was filed by a Lucknow-based lawyer Syed Rizwan Ahmad at the Gomtinagar Police Station after Spandana on Monday tweeted a photoshopped picture of Modi painting “chor” (thief) on his wax statue.

The police booked her under Section 67 (punishment for publishing or transmitting obscene material in electronic form) of the Information Technology (Amendment) Act and Section 124A (sedition) of the Indian Penal Code.

The complainant Ahmad posted a photograph of the First Information Report on Twitter and said that Modi’s legal team should be more vigilant. He urged the BJP to initiate a complaint as a complaint of defamation in the capacity of an individual cannot be maintained.