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Man arrested for ‘derogatory posts’ against Dalit, Muslim communities


The Ahmedabad Cyber Criminal offense Cell Thursday apprehended a 41- year-old male for purportedly uploading defamatory tweets as well as messages versus Dalit as well as Muslim neighborhoods on social media sites web sites.

According to authorities, Santosh Nihalani, a homeowner of Kubernagar in Ahmedabad, was apprehended by a group of Ahmedabad Cyber Criminal Offense Cell on Thursday after he was scheduled in an FIR at Vatva GIDC police headquarters on June 6 under different areas of the IPC consisting of 153 A for advertising enmity in between various teams as well as 500 for character assassination, together with areas of The Arranged Caste as well as Scheduled People (Avoidance of Atrocities) Act.

The FIR was submitted versus the twitter manage “Chowkidaar Santosh Nihalani” after a 64- year-old Dalit civil liberties lobbyist Chhotabhai Rathod of Ahmedabad sent a created problem to Vatva GIDC PS.

” I was examining my eat my Twitter account on May 27 when I found this account that utilized defamatory language versus Dalit, Chhara as well as Muslim neighborhoods. In the role of making a political remark versus a resistance event, the individual had actually utilized offending words versus several neighborhoods,” claimed Rathod in his problem.

” It has actually appeared in probe that the implicated had actually utilized defamatory as well as derogatory language versus politicians, police, Dalit, Chhaara as well as Muslim neighborhoods in his messages as well as tweets on Facebook as well as Twitter. He has actually been apprehended from his home today,” claimed an authorities of Ahmedabad Cyber Criminal Offense Cell.