BJP youth leader arrested for posting morphed image of Mamata Banerjee
Kolkata, May 12 (IBNS): A youth leader of Bharatiya Janata Party in West Bengal has been arrested for posting a morphed photograph of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee drawn from the over-the-top look of Priyanka Chopra at a red carpet event in New York.
The photo was a morphed image of Banerjee photoshopped on actress Priyanka Chopra's Met Gala look.
Priyanka Sharma, a Bharatiya Janata Party Yuva Morcha worker in Howrah, was arrested for having shared a meme on Banerjee, said media reports. Sharma has been sent to 14-day judicial custody by a court.
According to Indian Express, Sharma has been charged under Section 500 of the IPC (defamation), and Sections 66A (offensive messages) and the non-bailable 67A (punishment for publishing or transmitting of material containing sexually explicit act, etc., in electronic form) of the Information Technology Act.
According to media reports, a police complaint by a TMC leader read that "this act broke the community guidelines and it was being viewed as an issue of violence."
"She not just tries to insult our Hon’ble Chief Minister, but she trying to insult the culture of our Bengal by her post on Facebook and which is Cyber Crime,” the complaint read, according to a daily.
An FIR was lodged against her at Dasnagar Police Station in Howrah district.
If you vote for BJP in West Bengal, you will be killed.
— Apurb K Choudhary 🇮🇳 (@beingAPU) May 11, 2019
If you Chant 'Jai Shri Ram' you will be in Jail.
If you make cartoon on @MamataOfficial , you will be in Jail.
Hitler Didi at her best.#ISupportPriyankaSharma#shame @AITCofficial #gundaraaj @BJP4India pic.twitter.com/ukhH7s9WGw
A girl is sent to 14 days custody in Bengal for posting funny meme on @MamataOfficial , FoE goes for toss and liberals goes in hiding holes applying fevicol on their mouth
Is West Bengal a Nazi state and Mamata Lady Hitler ?
— Ramesh Solanki (@Rajput_Ramesh) May 11, 2019
I stand and #ISupportPriyankaSharma @narendramodi pic.twitter.com/TTMTVzv6U8
While the latest arrest is owing to a morphed photo of Mamata from a controversial outfit worn by a Bollywood actress that was trolled on social media in Twitter, this is not the first such case as a professor from Kolkata was arrested in 2012 for sharing TMC or Mamata Banerjee's caricatured images on social media.
And not a word from the fraud ‘Save Democracy’ brigade. National jholawalas are silent, including our so called ‘comedians’ who have made careers out of political memes.#ISupportPriyankaSharma https://t.co/d0KNwdzgf9
— Raj Pandit (@rajpandit17) May 10, 2019
Following the arrest, an outrage broke out on social media with #ISupportPriyankaSharma being the number one hashtag trend on Twitter.
Image: Indian Express Screenshot
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