[Reader-list] PROTEST AGAINST WHITE TERROR UNLEASHED BY MAMATA BANERJEE

[asit das]

 PROTEST AGAINST WHITE TERROR UNLEASHED BY MAMATA BANERJEE Dear Friends and
Comrades, After the brutal police lathi charge on poor Slum Dwellers of
Nonadanga kolkata on 4th April, the Trinamul Congress goons attacked a
peaceful procession of a democratic rights group in Kolata(APDR). While
slapping nonbailable  criminal charges against seven activist who were
remanded to police custody. Yesterday they were produced in court which has
remanded them to Judicial custody until April 26th. One of them Debolina
was forcible taken away by the state CID for further interrogation possible
to implicate her on charges of being a Maoist. We afraid she will be
physically tortured in police custody. The police under Mamata
Banerjee carries on it fascist terror with impunity. The entire democratic
and progressive individuals of this country are outraged by this unfolding
white terror in West Bengal.   On Thursday night  a chemistry professor of
Jadavpur University was physically attacked by Trinamul Goons and was
arrested under IT Act for a very innocent and innocuous cartoon. Below is
the report on IBN Live     We request the progressive and democratic
organization to protest against this white terror unleashed by Mamata
Banerjee in West Bengal. Jadavpur University professor arrested for
spreading 'anti-Mamata' cartoons

CNN-IBN <http://ibnlive.in.com/agency/CNN-IBN.html>

*Kolkata:* A Jadavpur University professor and his neighbour were arrested
on Friday morning for allegedly spreading "anti-Mamata Banerjee" cartoons
on the Internet. Ambikesh Mahapatra, a teacher with the Chemistry
Department of the University, and his neighbour, Subrata Sengupta, were
picked up on Thursday night by the police for allegedly forwarding cartoons
of Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee.

The cartoon, based on Satyajit Ray's movie Sonar Kella, allegedly shows
Mamata and Railways Minister Mukul Roy discussing how to get rid of party
MP Dinesh Trivedi.

Mahapatra has been booked for defaming Mamata. Section 66 of the
Information Technology Act, 2000 and Section 500, 509 and 114 of the Indian
Penal Code (punishment for defamation) have been slapped on the professor,
who was arrested on charges of forwarding "derogatory images" of the West
Bengal Chief Minister to nearly 65 recipients and mocking her government
policies.

Trinamool workers allegedly raided Mahapatra's residence at New Garia in
the southern fringes of Kolkata before the police picked him up. They also
allegedly manhandled the professor.

Even though Mahapatra was picked up on Thursday night the police showed his
arrest only on Friday morning after he had been forced to spend the night
at East Jadavpur Police Station. The professor will now be produced in the
Alipore court.

Sources say it is quite an unprecedented incident and point out that Mamata
is becoming increasingly intolerant to any incident that shows her in bad
light, even if it is innocuous.