FB post controversy: Another FIR lodged against poet Srijato
According to reports, a middle-aged person, Jayjeet Bhattacharya, lodged the complaint at Ghola PS against Srijato on the same allegation.
Meanwhile, claiming that he has been threatened to be killed in social networking sites since the poem was posted on Facebook, Srijato and his wife Durba Banyopadhyay on Thursday met senior police officials at Kolkata Police headquarters at Lalbazar and lodged an FIR at city police's cyber crime cell under IPC section 506 (Criminal intimidation) and section 67 of Information Technology (IT) Act (Publishing or transmitting obscene material in electronic form), an official said.
"As the poet is feeling insecured after receiving death threats, we have assigned a constable of special branch to provide Srijato and his family security," a senior official of Kolkata Police told IBNS.
Earlier on Wednesday, based on a complaint lodged by a member of an apolitical organization Hindu Samhati- Arnab Sarkar, investigating officer (IO) of Siliguri Cyber Crime Police Station, Abhijit Saha, initiated the case under non-bailable IPC section 295A (Deliberate and malicious acts, intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs) and IT Act section 67 in a Siliguri court.
Meanwhile, during a show in a private TV news channel, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said that anything, which could hamper the freedom of speech, will not happen with Srijato as he did nothing wrong or illegal.
After Yogi Adityanath was selected as the Chief Minister of newly elected BJP-led government in Uttar Pradesh, poet Srijato wrote a poem and posted it on his Facebook wall on Sunday late evening.
Alleging that few stanzas of the poem are harmful for religious sentiment, Arnab Sarkar, a resident of Bagha Jatin Colony area under Pradhan Nagar Police Station limits in Siliguri city of north Bengal, on Monday lodged a complaint against Srijato at Siliguri Metropolitan Police's Cyber Crime Section.
(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)
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