'A teenaged Muslim boy was arrested for a Facebook wisecrack on a high court ruling on the Ganga that the Supreme Court has stayed, and a jibe at the BJP's temple politics. He was charged with "hacking" and allegedly tortured in lock-up. He was also booked for cheating for using a murdered policeman's image as his profile picture as part of a campaign to seek justice for the officer. Sedition charges were allegedly added after he received bail...
'“Bowed down to media, secular and liberal bullies? We work for you tirelessly, selflessly. This is the reward,” tweeted @RitaG74, who is “blessed to be followed by Modi”. This was an attack on Union law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad for saying, “I strongly condemn and deplore the messages on social media expressing happiness on the dastardly murder of Gauri Lankesh.” The troll was upset that she was being scolded for celebrating a brutal murder...
'After 70 infants lost their lives within a couple of days at the BRD Medical College in Uttar Pradesh chief minister Adityanath’s constituency, the right-wing twitteratti is in overdrive to prove the yogi’s innocence and reveal the “#TruthOfGorakhpur”. In an attempt to change the narrative, hundreds of Twitter handles actively started defending the CM, who is under attack for lack of action against those responsible for the tragedy, by tweeting an identical ‘set of facts’ around 8pm on Sunday...'
'A 25-YEAR-OLD businessman in Bisauli area of Badaun district was arrested on charges of sedition on Sunday. A native of Sambhal district, Raja Khan alias Babloo has been accused of posting the message ‘I support Pakistan’ along with the photograph of a Pakistani flag on Facebook. Khan, who has been running a glass shop in Pathantola locality of Bisauli for the last four months, was arrested from his shop on Sunday. He was produced before the court, which sent him to jail. Police are collecting details of the 20 people who had liked his post and six others who had commented on it...'
'HAVING COME to Chennai International Airport to receive a friend arriving from the Gulf, a 36-year-old man from Kadappa, Andhra Pradesh, was booked on sedition charges for a “random” audio message he had received on WhatsApp, which was deemed “anti-national”, a Chennai airport police officer said. The sedition case was registered by Chennai airport police after the man — Tadikala Akbar Saleem — was taken into custody by the air intelligence unit of the Customs department, which is under the Union Home Ministry... “His statement was taken and Saleem was released.
'A 23-year-old man who was attacked and humiliated along with his female friend in Kerala on Valentine's Day was found hanging outside his home in Karara, Palakkad. On 14 February, Aneesh and his friend were assaulted by five men near a beach in Kollam. They also filmed the couple and asked the woman humiliating and obscene questions, according to The Indian Express.
'JNU Vice-Chancellor cordially invites JNU teachers, staff and students to attend a keynote address by Dr. Arvind Gupta, whose social media team on Twitter cordially abuses and threatens women with rape threats and graphic abuse!... Arvind Gupta has led the social media campaigns of the BJP’s IT Cell for several years now. Shortly after Narendra Modi’s projection as Prime Minister began, women journalists and activists started to get unimaginable online abuse, if they wrote about Narendra Modi, or Gujarat Riots.
'Kerala Police on Tuesday went back on its decision to slap sedition charges on writer Kamalsy Prana and book activist K P Nadir under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) following criticism from the ruling CPM. Prana was booked after a BJP worker complained that the writer had insulted the national anthem on Facebook post by quoting from his novel. Nadir, who is accused of distributing pro-Maoist pamphlets in Kannur in March, was on Monday arrested from Kozhikode Medical College, where he had gone to meet Prana...'
'In a first case of its kind, Rohtak police on Monday booked a Facebook user on sedition charges for allegedly posting derogatory comments against RSS, BJP and Haryana government functionaries. The Facebook user was identified as Surender Duhan, a resident of Jasbir Colony in Rohtak, after cyber cell of the police carried out investigations and tracked his mobile number which was used in creating the account...'
'YOUTHS aligned to the ABVP and an independent students’ organisation called Chhatra Sangharsh Samiti on Tuesday vandalised property and created commotion at a private institute in Udaipur to register their protest against a student from Kashmir who had allegedly shared a post on Facebook praising slain Hizbul Mujahideen militant Burhan Wani. Mudasir Rashid, a third-year student of civil engineering, has since been suspended and booked under sedition...'
