5 Years After FB Post on Modi, UP Man Arrested And Charged With Sedition
Five years after a man from Meerut in Uttar Pradesh posted a morphed photo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Facebook, he was arrested by the police and charged with sedition on Thursday. This is not the first case where a person has been arrested under the sedition law in Uttar Pradesh.
Ever since the Adityanath-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government came to power in UP in March 2017, at least 150 cases of sedition have been reported across the state and half-a-dozen persons arrested in Saharanpur, Meerut, Gautam Buddh Nagar, Varanasi, Pratapgarh, Ballia, Bahraich, Basti and Ghaziabad.
In most of these cases, the ‘crime’ is the same – sharing “offensive”, “objectionable”, “inflammatory” and “defamatory” content on social media, including criticisim of late prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, or ridiculing Modi, Adityanath or Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat.…
https://www.newsclick.in/5-years-FB-post-modi-UP-man-arrested-charged-sedition
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