FIR against Silchar teacher for posting "objectionable" photo of PM Modi

SILCHAR: Tamojit Saha, a teacher hailing from Silchar in Assam's Cachar district has earned the wrath of local Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders after posting some unflattering images of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on social media platform Facebook. Disgruntled supporters of India's Prime Minister have now lodged an FIR against him for posting an "objectionable picture."

Saha, who teaches Bengali at Ramanuj Gupta Junior College, is a resident of the Public School Road in Silchar town. In the "objectionable photo", Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar and Haryana deputy chief minister Dushyant Chautala can be seen garlanded with shoes and chappals, presumably at a farmers' protest in Haryana.

The FIR was lodged by Snehangshu Bhattacharjee, who is the president of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), Gurucharan College unit.

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According to the complaint by Snehangshu, Tamojit had been spreading “disrespectful and hate speech” against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar and deputy chief minister Dushyant Chautala on social media. The complainant has urged police to take strict action against Saha.

A case (case number – 167/2021) under Sections 294 (obscene acts, songs) and 501 (printing or engraving matter known to be defamatory) of the Indian Penal Code and Section 67 (publishing or transmitting obscene material in electronic form) of the Information Technology Act, 2000 was registered.

Bhanwar Lal Meena, the Superintendent of Police of Cachar district told Inside Northeast that the teacher is being investigated. "Based on the FIR we received, we have launched an investigation and are currently probing the matter. We are evaluating all the angles. The person named in the FIR is yet to be arrested."

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