FIR Over AI Video Claiming to Show Police at Lat Bhairav Event

Adampur police registered an FIR on Tuesday evening after a complaint that an artificially generated video circulating on social media falsely depicted policemen watching a dance during cultural programmes at the Lat Bhairav temple festival.

The complaint was filed by Sub-Inspector Baliram Yadav, in-charge of the Lat Bhairav outpost. Baba Lat Bhairav's Tilakotsav and Vivah Utsav ran from 23 to 27 September. Large crowds at the cultural evenings brought a heavy police deployment for crowd control and security. Someone later posted a clip that appeared to place policemen on stage watching women dance. Police say that clip was created with AI tools and pushed online to mislead viewers.

Deputy Commissioner of Police (Kashi Zone) Gaurav Bansalwal said the viral video is AI-generated and that an attempt has been made to tarnish the image of the police through a misleading clip. An FIR has been registered and those who created and circulated it are being identified, he said.

Rohit Jaiswal, president of the Lat Bhairav committee, said cultural programmes are a regular part of the Tilakotsav and Vivah Utsav and that female artists also perform. He described the video that appears to put policemen on stage as AI-generated.

Deepfake and generative-video complaints are newer to local station work than ordinary CCTV disputes, but the legal path still begins with a named complainant, a registered FIR, and digital tracing of the first upload and share chain. Adampur's case follows that sequence. Investigators will typically seek the original file, metadata, and account details from platforms once legal process allows.

Police have not named a suspect in the public briefing. The verified public facts are the FIR, the complainant's post, the DCP's statement that the video is fabricated, and the ongoing effort to identify who made it viral. Viewers who shared the clip believing it was authentic are part of the circulation trail that cyber investigators map, though sharing alone is not the same as creating the file.

Festival seasons in Banaras always mix heavy policing with large cultural crowds. That mix is exactly what a fabricated clip tries to exploit. The Adampur FIR is the formal answer: treat the video as manufactured, open a case, and follow the upload trail. Until a charge sheet names creators, the public record stops at the complaint and the police denial of the scene the clip pretends to show.

Social media users who still have the file on their phones may be asked later how they received it. Saving a viral clip is common; originating a fabricated police scene is the conduct the FIR targets. Distinguishing those roles is part of the cyber investigation.

For temple organisers, the episode is an unwelcome shadow on a festival week that otherwise focused on Tilakotsav and Vivah Utsav rituals and cultural nights. Their public line matches the police: the stage scene in the clip is not a real recording of officers on duty. That alignment between committee and commissionerate is why the Adampur case moved quickly from complaint to FIR.