Roddur Roy
Vlogger Roddur Roy arrested from Goa for abusive remark against Mamata Banerjee over KK death
Kolkata/Panaji: Kolkata Police on Tuesday arrested controversial vlogger Roddur Roy from Goa for allegedly making derogatory remarks against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her nephew Abhishek Banerjee.
The cyber cell officials of the Kolkata Police arrested him from Goa.
The vlogger, whose youtube posts had triggered controversy in the past as well, allegedly made the remarks during a Facebook Live programme.
Recently, a complaint was lodged against him at Hare Street PS & another was registered with Chitpore police station by AITC spokesperson Riju Dutta.
He will be produced before a local court for a transit remand to Kolkata.
Controversy in 2020:
In 2020, Rabindra Bharati University (RBU)'s BT Road campus in north Kolkata witnessed a shocking display of cuss words- read vulgar Bengali slangs- by a group of young students, who were later identified as outsiders, on their bodies while celebrating the annual Basanta Utsav (spring festival inspired by Bengali cultural icon Rabindranath Tagore, whose song they lampooned).
Later, it was noticed that the youngsters took those cuss and obscene words from a parody of Roddur Roy.
Roy had earlier triggered a row when he composed parodies of Indian literary icon and first non-European Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore using 'objectionable' and 'obscene' words.
Members of Paschim Banga Shikshak Aikya Mukta Mancha, an organization of teachers in West Bengal, in 2020 had lodged a complaint with the Beliaghata Police Station in Kolkata against YouTuber Roddur Roy.
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