Biswajeet Banerjee14 May 2014
Lucknow Police has arrested Congress’s social media activist and historian Amaresh Misra, well-known for his proximity to senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh and a prominent member of the party’s team of social media evangelists, for inciting communal violence and spreading hatred against the BJP and its Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi though his Twitter and Facebook accounts.
Circle Officer of Hazratganj Dinesh Yadav said the police had received a complaint against Amaresh Misra, a resident of Gurgaon, for posting hate speech on his Facebook page and inciting violence against Modi through his Twitter account.
Soon after exit polls predicted a victory for the BJP, Amaresh Misra, with a past record of inciting violence and spreading hate against the BJP and Modi, ran amok on social media, more so on Twitter, threatening riots, arson and murder. He even went on to demand that the Election Commission should fix the results to deny victory to the BJP.
On several occasions in the past he has abused and sexually harassed women on Twitter. He has threatened rape and worse to those who disagree with the Congress, Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi.
In an open exchange with Amaresh Misra, Congress MP and Minister Shashi Tharoor, while advising caution, had praised him for his work. That was followed by howls of protest but Tharoor had chosen to stand by the abuser.
Within hours of the 26/11 terror attacks on Mumbai, Amaresh Misra had blogged and later gone public with the outrageous claim that the bloodbath was a “Hindu-Jewish conspiracy”. It was supported by the likes of Digvijay Singh.
Inspector of Hazratganj police station Ashok Verma was asked to inquire into the complaint against Amaresh Misra. Verma, along with a team of cyber cell policemen, raided Amaresh Misra’s house and he was arrested on Wednesday.
The CO said the police had registered a case against Amaresh Misra under Sections 504, 153 (A) of IPC and a case under section 66 A of the IT Act. “Amaresh Misra used offensive language against leaders, including Modi, in his posts,” the police officer said.
Amaresh Misra had contested the 2009 Lok Sabha election as a Ulema Council candidate from Lucknow and had lost his deposit.
Source: http://www.niticentral.com/2014/05/14/congress-social-media-activist-and-historian-amaresh-misra-arrested-for-inciting-violence-spreading-hate-223562.html
Lucknow Police has arrested Congress’s social media activist and historian Amaresh Misra, well-known for his proximity to senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh and a prominent member of the party’s team of social media evangelists, for inciting communal violence and spreading hatred against the BJP and its Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi though his Twitter and Facebook accounts.
Circle Officer of Hazratganj Dinesh Yadav said the police had received a complaint against Amaresh Misra, a resident of Gurgaon, for posting hate speech on his Facebook page and inciting violence against Modi through his Twitter account.
Soon after exit polls predicted a victory for the BJP, Amaresh Misra, with a past record of inciting violence and spreading hate against the BJP and Modi, ran amok on social media, more so on Twitter, threatening riots, arson and murder. He even went on to demand that the Election Commission should fix the results to deny victory to the BJP.
On several occasions in the past he has abused and sexually harassed women on Twitter. He has threatened rape and worse to those who disagree with the Congress, Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi.
In an open exchange with Amaresh Misra, Congress MP and Minister Shashi Tharoor, while advising caution, had praised him for his work. That was followed by howls of protest but Tharoor had chosen to stand by the abuser.
Within hours of the 26/11 terror attacks on Mumbai, Amaresh Misra had blogged and later gone public with the outrageous claim that the bloodbath was a “Hindu-Jewish conspiracy”. It was supported by the likes of Digvijay Singh.
Inspector of Hazratganj police station Ashok Verma was asked to inquire into the complaint against Amaresh Misra. Verma, along with a team of cyber cell policemen, raided Amaresh Misra’s house and he was arrested on Wednesday.
The CO said the police had registered a case against Amaresh Misra under Sections 504, 153 (A) of IPC and a case under section 66 A of the IT Act. “Amaresh Misra used offensive language against leaders, including Modi, in his posts,” the police officer said.
Amaresh Misra had contested the 2009 Lok Sabha election as a Ulema Council candidate from Lucknow and had lost his deposit.
Source: http://www.niticentral.com/2014/05/14/congress-social-media-activist-and-historian-amaresh-misra-arrested-for-inciting-violence-spreading-hate-223562.html
No comments:
Post a Comment