Reports of an obscene clip shared on a WhatsApp group of social activists by Goa Deputy Chief Minister Chandrakant Kavlekar recently surfaced online.

A complaint was registered against Kavlekar by the women's unit of the Goa Forward Party, calling for an FIR against him. "Knowing full well that the video is completely lascivious in nature and containing sexually explicit content, was in fact porn, he still went ahead and shared it on a public group thereby transmitting it in electronic form," the complaint read. The deputy CM has, however, alleged that his phone was hacked and the clips were sent when he was asleep. He made the claims in his complaint to the police against the unidentified individuals who were apparently responsible for the hack. Chandrakant Kavlekar has written in his complaint that he was asleep at 1.20 am, when the inappropriate video was shared with a WhatsApp group called 'Villages of Goa.' He added that the video was intentionally masked in his name with some criminal intention. "The message was sent to only this group out of the many WhatsApp groups where I am a member. Also, the time when this message was sent, I was nowhere near the phone and I was fast asleep. There have been many such attempts in the recent history to defame my name and project a wrong image of me in front of the public," the Deputy Chief Minister alleged.

Demanding action against the culprits, Kavlekar further added, "I demand strong action against all miscreants and unscrupulous individuals who have criminally hacked/tampered with my mobile phone and uploaded and transmitted obscene material."