Archive · 17 Aug 2026
Third accused gets bail in Bhagwant Mann video case
A man named Pankaj Yadav was arrested by the police.
The police thought he helped make fake computer reports about a video.
The video supposedly showed a famous leader named Bhagwant Mann.
Mr. Mann said the person in the video was not him.
The reports were supposed to say the video was made by a computer program called AI.
Mr. Yadav runs a computer training centre in Delhi.
A court in Gurgaon looked at the case.
The court said there was not enough evidence.
So the court let Mr. Yadav go free on bail.
He is the third person in this case to be released on bail.
A Gurgaon court granted regular bail to Pankaj Yadav, the third accused arrested in the case.
The case involves alleged fabrication of forensic reports about a purported 'objectionable' video of Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann.
Mann has claimed that the individual seen in the video is not him.
Yadav is the proprietor of Cyber Yaan, a training centre in Delhi's Tilak Nagar, allegedly one of the labs used to prepare a report showing the video was AI-generated.
All three men arrested by Haryana Police in the case so far are now out on bail, with the court flagging lack of evidence again.
- Who
- Pankaj Yadav, proprietor of Cyber Yaan training centre, and Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann
- What
- A Gurgaon court granted regular bail to the third accused in a case of alleged fabrication of forensic reports about a purported 'objectionable' video of Bhagwant Mann
- When
- Monday
- Where
- Gurgaon court; the case was investigated by Haryana Police, and Cyber Yaan is located in Delhi's Tilak Nagar
- Why
- The court flagged lack of evidence again in the case
- Accused granted bail
- Pankaj Yadav
- Bail type
- Regular bail
- Accused number
- Third accused in the case
- Case subject
- Alleged fabrication of forensic reports about a purported 'objectionable' video of Bhagwant Mann
- Alleged lab
- Cyber Yaan, a training centre in Delhi's Tilak Nagar
- Mann's claim
- The individual seen in the video is not him
- Investigating police
- Haryana Police
- Status of arrested men
- All three arrested so far are out on bail