Gujarat police on Tuesday arrested Trinamul Congress spokes-person Saket Gokhale from Jaipur in Rajasthan over a tweet on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Morbi in the wake of a bridge collapse there.

According to Gujarat police, the Trinamul spokesperson was arrested from Jaipur in Rajasthan during the early hours of Tuesday. The Ahmedabad Cyber Crime Cell picked him up on the basis of an FIR registered under sections 465, 469, 471 (all for forgery) and 501 (printing or engraving matter known to be defamatory) of the Indian Penal Code.

The arrest related to Gokhale’s tweet on Modi’s visit to Morbi in Gujarat following a bridge collapse on October 30.

The tweet cited a news item purportedly published in a Gujarati newspaper, saying an RTI application had revealed that the Gujarat government had spent Rs 30 crore on Modi’s visit to Morbi.

Gokhale wrote that the amount spent on “welcome, event management and photography” was more than the ex-gratia given to the next of kin of 135 victims. “Just Modi’s event management & PR costs more than life of 135 people,” he had tweeted.

The Gujarat police as well as the Press Information Bureau said the news clip cited in the tweet was fake.

Trinamul chairperson and Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, who spent a major part of her day in Rajasthan, told reporters in Jaipur: “It’s a very bad, and sad (incident)...Saket (Gokhale) is a bright man. He is very popular on social media. He made no mistake.”

She visited Ajmer Sharif and Pushkar in Rajasthan on Tuesday before returning to Delhi in the evening.

“I condemn this vindictive attitude. He (Saket) has been arrested because he tweeted against the Prime Minister. People also tweet against me... We are really feeling sorry about the situation,” she added.