Close on the heels of the controversial arrest of a singer for criticising Ms Jayalalithaa, an advocate here was arrested on Friday on charges of uploading a post on a social networking site “derogati
Close on the heels of the controversial arrest of a singer for criticising Ms Jayalalithaa, an advocate here was arrested on Friday on charges of uploading a post on a social networking site “derogative” of the chief minister.
Advocate B.C. Sridhar was arrested in the early hours on a complaint from a local AIADMK functionary that he had allegedly posted a picture of a model with the morphed face of Jayalalithaa on November 10, the police said.
AIADMK town secretary Devaraj in his complaint said the post in which the model was shown holding a liquor bottle and greeting people on Diwali had gone viral and affected the prestige of the chief minister.
In a pre-dawn action, the police went to the house of Mr Sridhar here, arrested and produced him before Gudalur judge (vacation judge) around 2.30 am, the police said.
The police has registered cases against Mr Sridhar under the Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Women Harassment Act and Information and Technology Act.
The advocate was remanded to judicial custody and lodged in the sub-jail here around 4 am, the police said. The state police had in October arrested 54-year old ultra-Left propagandist singer Kovan on charge of sedition for allegedly uploading “defamatory” electronic content against Ms Jayalalithaa and “disturbing” public peace.
