India, June 25 -- A day after the Gurgaon police arrested two men over allegations that government officials used threats and a cash inducement to procure forged forensic reports declaring a controversial video involving him as AI-generated and amid the opposition's attacks over the issue, Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann on Wednesday accused the rival parties of joining hands and using "fake videos" to defame him.

Dismissing allegations that forensic test reports giving him a clean chit were fabricated, Mann alleged that the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) were trying to defame him on religious grounds after failing politically. He claimed that the fake video was deliberately created and circu...