[Reader-list] Mamata's Pinarayi Way: Jadavpur University professor arrested under IT act for spreading 'anti-Mamata' cartoons

[Anivar Aravind]

Bengali Friends says "it is not even a cartoon. It is a set of photos with
words in Bangla pasted on them. It is a satire that takes off from a
popular Satyajit Ray film. And it has been widely circulated on the Net. "

Reminds me Pinarayi Vijayan's "cyber defamation suit" on similar lines
which leads to arrest Moythu for circulating his mail with "Sandesam"
quotes

It seems like Mamata is mimicing all bad of CPIM now , just like CPIM
inherited all bad of Previous SS ray Congress rule

Anivar
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http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/WestBengal/Not-funny-Prof--neighbour--arrested-over-Mamata-cartoons/Article1-839847.aspx

Police arrested Ambikesh Mahapatra, a professor of chemistry of Jadavpur
University for sending e-mails that show chief minister Mamata Banerjee,
former railway minister Dinesh Trivedi and railway minister Mukul Roy in a
poor light.


Police sources say Subrata Sengupta, a neighbour of Mahapatra, has also
been arrested. Among the charges slapped against the two are some sections
of the IT Act.

The cartoon in question has been doing the rounds in West Bengal after
Mamata forced Trivedi out of the rail ministry and put Roy in his place.
Apparently, the cartoon is a caricature of Satyajit Ray's detective
masterpiece on celluloid Sonar Kella. The police have come to know
Mahapatra has sent the mail to about 65 people. However, it is not yet
clear what are the charges that the police has slapped against the
professor.

Trinamool Congress supporters attacked him at his residence at New Garia on
Thursday night. They accused him to sending disparaging e-mails that showed
chief minister, railway minister and the former railway minister in a poor
light, and uploading the cartoon on his Facebook account.

According to Jadavpur University sources, police arrived at the scene when
the Trinamool supporters were heckling the professor. Police picked him up
and took him to the East Jadavpur police station. He was shown arrested on
Friday morning.

Mahapatra would be produced to the court on Friday.

The arrest has already triggered a rising tide of protest in the university
campus, with a section of his colleagues and students defending his action
as a part of his right to express his views. Over the past few weeks a
section of Kolkata's intellectuals who campaigned for Mamata before the
2011 assembly polls, have started protesting against what they call
dictatorial tendencies of her government.



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