Telangana home minister Mahmood Ali is under fire after his grandson used a police van to record a TikTok video. The video faced criticism on social media as a gross misuse of government machinery
Hyderabad: Telangana home minister Mahmood Ali's grandson Furqan Ahmed has sparked a major row after a video purportedly showing him sitting on the bonnet of a police car went viral.
In the video, Furqan is seen seated, along with one other person, on the police van, the number plate of which suggests it is registered belongs to Telangana Police chief.
All police vehicles are registered under Director General of Police's name and the vehicle in the video was allotted to the home minister, police sources said.
In the video, the person sitting with Furqan walks up to the camera and lip-syncs a dialogue from a film where a senior police officer is apparently being threatened.
The officer is warned that if he did not behave himself with the man seated on the jeep, his throat would be slit. This is the second time in the past week that a TikTok video has stirred a controversy in the state.
The home minister, to whom the state's police reports, reacted to the video saying his grandson "was just seated on the vehicle".
The minister said they had gone to attend a function two days ago in Hyderabad's Yakatpura where a local made the video. "Some local guy made the video... we will look into it," the minister said.
Two days ago, about 11 employees of Telangana's Khammam Municipal Corporation were transferred, with a pay cut after a TikTok video made by them went viral. They were reportedly contract employees.
In the video, they were seen lip-syncing to a Telugu number. Though the video looked light-hearted and fun, the district collector was not amused.
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