Chennai, June 25 (UNI) Popular social media commentator and
BJP supporter Kishore K Swamy, who was arrested for posting
defamatory contents against former Chief Ministers and DMK
leaders C N Annadurai and M.Karunanidhi and present Chief
Minister M.K.Stalin, was today detained under the Goondas
Act.
On the orders of Chennai City Police Commissioner Shankar
Jiwal the memo, detaining him under the Goondas Act, was
served on him at the Puzhal Central prison, where he has
been lodged.
An acerbic critic of the ruling DMK and a supporter of both the
AIADMK and the BJP on the social media, Kishore Swamy was
arrested on June 14 from his residence by the Sankar Nagar
Police following a complaint from DMK IT wing Coordinator
Ravichandran for posting and circulating abusive, defamatory
content against former Chief Ministers and present Chief
Minister in his Twitter.
Acting on the complaint, police registered cases against Kishore
Swamy under various sections of the IPC, including under Sec 153
(Wantonly giving provocation with intent to cause riot), 505(1)(b)
(Causing fear or alarm to the public, or to any section of the public
whereby any person may be induced to commit an offence against
the State or against the public tranquility) and 505(1)(c) (Whoever
makes, publishes or circulates any statement or report containing
rumour or alarming news with intent to create or promote, or which
is likely to create or promote feelings of enmity, hatred or ill-will
between different religious, racial, language or regional groups or
castes or communities).
He was produced before a Magistrate and remanded in judicial
custody till June 28.
He was arrested for a second time for posting derogatory remarks
against women journalists and later one more case was slapped
against him on a complaint given by a woman actor and formally
arrested in these cases also.
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