Man arrested for posting ‘derogatory’ remark against Mamata Banerjee on Facebook

“Chandan Bhattacharya had posted the comment on October 28. Party workers failed to trace his location that day. However, the next day, they found out that he lives in Singur. Following this, I lodged a police complaint against him,” Banerjee said.

Confirming the same, Superintendent of Police Tathagata Basu said, “We arrested Chandan Bhattacharya after a complaint was filed against him with Singur police station. A probe has been initiated in the case.”

The incident came days after Congress leader Sanmoy Bandopadhyay was arrested from North 24 Parganas district for allegedly violating the Cyber Crime Act.

Leader of the Congress party in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury had accused the police of arresting Bandopadhyay for circulating posts critical of the TMC government.

In May, BJP Yuva Morcha leader Priyanka Sharma was arrested in Howrah district for sharing a morphed image of Mamata Banerjee on social media. The Supreme Court had granted her bail on the condition that she apologise to the chief minister for the post.