Bihar journalist receives threats for social media post, FIR filed (Lead)
Friday - August 24, 2018 3:00 pm ,
Category : INDIA
Patna Aug 24 (IANS) An FIR was filed by an Urdu daily journalist here after he was threatened with death for a social media post that Prime Minister Narendra Modi would seek votes in the 2019 general elections in the name of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee a police official said on Friday.
Seemab Akhtar who works at Farooqui Tanzeem published from Patna was repeatedly threatened by an unidentified man for his social media post in Hindi: "Dekh lena agle chunao mein Modi Atal ki tasveer lekar roenge aur bolenge bhai-behno inke naam pe dedo vote unka sapna pura karna hai... (in the next elections Modi will carry Atal s picture and shed tears asking for votes to fulfil the former PM s dream).
According to Akhtar he received threat calls and was asked not to post anything against the Bharatiya Janata Party on the social media. "I was threatened with death if I continued to write against the BJP."
Bajpatti police station incharge Kanchan Bhaskar said that an FIR had been filed.
Sanjay Kumar a Professor at Motihari Central University in east Champaran district was beaten up by a group of people last Friday for his comments on the social media that appeared to criticise Vajpayee. A seriously injured Kumar was first admitted in Patna hospital but later shifted to AIIMS in Delhi.
--IANS ik/anp/tsb/bg
Seemab Akhtar who works at Farooqui Tanzeem published from Patna was repeatedly threatened by an unidentified man for his social media post in Hindi: "Dekh lena agle chunao mein Modi Atal ki tasveer lekar roenge aur bolenge bhai-behno inke naam pe dedo vote unka sapna pura karna hai... (in the next elections Modi will carry Atal s picture and shed tears asking for votes to fulfil the former PM s dream).
According to Akhtar he received threat calls and was asked not to post anything against the Bharatiya Janata Party on the social media. "I was threatened with death if I continued to write against the BJP."
Bajpatti police station incharge Kanchan Bhaskar said that an FIR had been filed.
Sanjay Kumar a Professor at Motihari Central University in east Champaran district was beaten up by a group of people last Friday for his comments on the social media that appeared to criticise Vajpayee. A seriously injured Kumar was first admitted in Patna hospital but later shifted to AIIMS in Delhi.
--IANS ik/anp/tsb/bg
