raipur chhattisgarh police and uttar pradesh police reportedly jostled for the custody of zee news anchor rohit ranjan at ghaziabad on tuesday morning after a state police team reached his residence with an arrest warrant in connection with an fir registered against him for running a fake video of congress leader rahul gandhi linking his comments with the udaipur killingread alsonoida chhattisgarh cops scuffle over custody of tv anchor in ghaziabadnoida police detained zee news anchor rohit ranjan from his house in ghaziabads indirapuram on tuesday for airing doctored video of rahul gandhiraipur police has alleged that up police intervened and forcefully took the alleged accused along with them obstructing procedures despite state police having a warrant the ghaziabad police intervened soon after a chhattisgarh police team reached the residence of tv news anchor rohit ranjan at indirapurampolice said the chhattisgarh police and up police personnel had a scuffle when cg police team led by dsp udayan dehar and comprising nine other personnel were trying to take ranjan in a vehicleraipur senior superintendent of police prashant agrawal told toi based on a complaint registered by congress mla devendra yadav an fir was lodged against zee news tv anchor rohit ranjan on july 3 for allegedly promoting enmity between different groups intentional insult and outraging religious feelings of people a team was then constituted and sent to ghaziabad for the arrestthe state police have complied with the process of law and had reached the ghaziabad residence of accused for execution of the warrant issued by the court while the procedures of arrest were being done after taking the accused in custody the uttar pradesh police forcefully took the accused along with them and obstructed the arresting procedures despite showing a warrant he addedssp further said that the state police were approaching their higher authorities and would then take legal recourse we have given a complaint at indirapuram police station regarding the matter but they refused to accept it we have then emailed the sp and ig agrawal saidyadav in his complaint said a video of rahul gandhi was mischievously used by the tv news channel on july one that was linked to gandhi suggesting to forgive the killers of udaipur tailor kanhaiya lal while gandhi was referring to the students federation of india sfi members who attached his office at wayanad in kerala besides ranjan yadav in his complaint has also accused chairman and chief executive officer of zee news of airing fabricated news against gandhihowever news anchor ranjan apologized on the show the next day on july 2 admitting the mistake that gandhis statement was played in another context related to the udaipur incidenthe also tweeted it was a human error and our team is apologetic about itwhen state police reached rohit ranjans residence after an fir was lodged ranjan tweeted in hindi chhattisgarh police is standing outside my house to arrest me without informing the local police is it legal he also tagged up chief minister yogi adityanathraipur police