Maharashtra: Man arrested in Chandrapur for allegedly offensive posts about RSS, Narendra Modi

The police in Maharashtra’s Chandrapur district arrested a man on Sunday for allegedly posting offensive content against Prime Minister Narendra Modi

, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and Union minister Smriti Irani, among others. Baliraj Dhote, who reportedly runs a “self-respect movement”, was taken into custody after the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Information Technology cell filed complaints against him, The Indian Express reported.

Dhote has been charged under sections 354 1(iv) [secual harassment] and 505(2) [public mischief] of the Indian Penal Code and Section 67 [transmitting obscene material in electronic form] of the Information Technology Act. He has been sent to magisterial custody.

“We have arrested him under the above sections because he posted offensive and obscene content on both WhatsApp and Facebook,” the newspaper quoted Superintendent of Police Maheshwar Reddy as saying. “He had posted another content that showed PM Modi and Union minister Smriti Irani in a bad light. These posts had created disquiet in the city and posed a threat to peace in the city.” One of his posts was about freedom fighter Bhagat Singh being represented by a Muslim lawyer while a Hindu lawyer, associated with the RSS, had argued in the case against him, Reddy added.

Dhote was arrested in the early hours of Sunday amid high drama...

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