A professor of chemistry of the Jadavpur University was arrested on Friday along with his neighbour for allegedly posting a cartoon on a popular social networking site involving Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Railway Minister Mukul Roy and former Railway minister Dinesh Trivedi.
DCP (south suburban division) Sujay Chanda said that Professor Ambikesh Mohapatra was arrested along with a neighbour residing in east Jadavpur for spreading derogatory messages against “respectable persons.” They would be produced in a court, he added.
The cartoon in question, which was also sent by e-mail, showed chief minister and the railway minister apparently exchanging dialogues from a popular Bengali film Sonar Kella, a detective masterpiece by Satyajit Ray, which alluded to the replacement of Trivedi by Roy as Railway minister.
The arrests triggered reaction from various circles with State Labour Minister Purnendu Bose justifying the police action. Mr. Bose argued that it was not a cartoon, but real pictures, which was “nothing but an insult,” adding that “Law will take its own course.”
Source:The Hindu . Photo by -PTI
Source:The Hindu . Photo by -PTI
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