A 78-year old person from Jivraj Park area has filed a complaint against two youths for making his prank video without his knowledge and making it viral through social media platforms. A complaint has been filed by the victim senior citizen in Cyber Crime police station of Ahmedabad. The youths are believed originally from Rajasthan.
According to a complainant, he is a retired person who lives with his son. He is the father of three girls who are married. On 9 February, he visited Sanjivani clinic for pain his legs at around 5 pm. As the clinic was closed, he was on way back to his home on foot. A car stopped near him and two youths, one on the driving seat and the other on the back side offered him a lift. As he was tired, the complainant senior citizen sat in the car. Soon he found that the youths started teasing him and talking about Valentine’s Day. One of two youths claimed he suffered a breakup and sought guidance. Then they showed women walking on the roads and asked whether there was one suitable for him? Then they also started teasing the senior citizens in reference to talks about Dhirubhai Ambani.
A Youtuber sitting in the driving seat was identified as Mangesh Prajapati while the other youth on the back seat was identified as Pratik. The senior citizen left the car at Ashapura mandir and reached home.
On 15 February, in the morning when the senior citizen complainant was passing through the street, one Viashaliben informed him that she saw him in a Youtube video which was sent to her by her son Vinit. She also later showed the video to the complainant.
He was shocked to find that without his knowledge, a prank video was captured by a car camera and it was uploaded on Youtube with a title of Car Prank, a comedy video. A glimpse of this video was also put on the Instagram account of Mangesh Prajapati.
Police have registered complaint in this case under sections 501, 66(c) and 67.