Kolkata college student held for allegedly calling for Mamata Banerjee’s assassination
The individual had uploaded a story on social media calling for the West Bengal chief minister to be killed like former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was.
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The Kolkata Police on Sunday arrested a college student for allegedly calling for the assassination of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, NDTV reported.
The second-year commerce student, Kirti Sharma, allegedly uploaded a story on social media platform Instagram calling for Banerjee to be killed like former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was.
Sharma allegedly posted the story amid protests against the West Bengal government in light of the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata on August 9.
The police said that a complaint was filed against a person with the Instagram username “kirtisocial” at the city’s Taltala police station. The police also alleged that Sharma disclosed the identity and photo of the trainee doctor who was raped and murdered.
“At the same time, the accused person also shared two stories against the CM that contained offensive comments and life threats to her,” PTI quoted an unidentified police officer as saying. “Those were very much provocative in nature and might have created social unrest and promoted hatred among communities.”
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