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Journalist booked for defaming Mahuva BJP MLA on social media

The police said that Keyur Patel, the sarpanch of Karchaliya village in Mahuva taluka, had on Sunday filed a complaint against Jashoda Desai, a journalist with Prathna Sandesh – a vernacular newspaper and news channel, which also uploads an edition daily on the social media.

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Gujarat BJP MLA defamation case, Mahuva BJP MLA Mohan Dodhiya, criminal defamation case, Journalist booked defamation case, social media post, indian express newsThe complaint says the journalist made derogatory comments against Mohan Dodhiya raising questions about his educational qualifications. (Representational Image)

A journalist was booked for criminal defamation by the police in Surat district for allegedly uploading social media content against Mahuva BJP MLA Mohan Dodhiya, raising questions about his educational qualifications.

The police said that Keyur Patel, the sarpanch of Karchaliya village in Mahuva taluka, had on Sunday filed a complaint against Jashoda Desai, a journalist with Prathna Sandesh – a vernacular newspaper and news channel, which also uploads an edition daily on the social media.

In his complaint, Patel alleged that Desai made derogatory comments against Dodhiya, the four-term BJP MLA from Mahuva, on the social media edition.

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Mahuva police Inspector S M Patel said, “We have registered an offence on the basis of Keyur Patel’s statement. We have collected screenshots of the content Jashodaben Desai uploaded against the BJP MLA on social media. We are looking for Desai and have also called the editor of the newspaper.”

Dodhiya said, “I don’t know Jashoda Desai, never met or talked to her. I don’t know why she is targeting me. On social media, she says I have studied till Class VII while I have studied till Class IX… She is intentionally harming my reputation and defaming me. I suspect some more people to be behind her.”

Desai has been booked under sections 469 (forgery for purpose of harming reputation), 500 (defamation), 501 (putting or engraving matter known to be defamatory) and 502 (sale of printed or engraved substance containing defamatory matter) of the Indian Penal Code.

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