HISAR: Hisar police have registered a case against a city based freelance journalist for allegedly promoting enmity among different groups, imputation to nation integration and cyber terrorism after a post on social media predicting caste-based riots.
Protesting the police move, a meeting of Hisar journalists was held where they expressed their anger and decided to meet the administration and the government to demand dismissal of the FIR.
According to Hisar police, a case was registered at Civil Line police station on the complaint of EHC Vikash, public relation officer of superintendent of police of Hisar, against YouTube journalist Rudra Rajesh Kundu under sections 153-A (promoting enmity between different groups, and doing acts prejudicial to maintenance of harmony), 153-B (imputations, assertions prejudicial to national integration) of the Indian Penal Code and Section 66-F (cyber terrorism) of the IT Act.
In the complaint to the police, he said on the night of April 8, Kundu, who was the group administrator of a WhatsApp group, posted from his phone: “Caste-based riot would start in the Hisar city in the next week. Stay ready for this. The entire script is ready for Dalit versus others. After using it, the blueprint for implementing it in the entire state and then the country is ready.”
He also uploaded the same post on his Facebook page, the cops said, adding that by doing this, Kundu had tried to incite general public.