Police in West Bengal on Friday morning arrested a Jadavpur University professor for allegedly spreading “anti-Mamata Banerjee” cartoons on the internet.
Ambikesh Mahapatra, a teacher with the Chemistry Department of the University, was picked up on Thursday night by the police for allegedly forwarding cartoons of Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee. He was also attacked by Trinammol Congress workers on Thursday night when he was returning home.
Prof Mahapatra was allegedly arrested for forwarding “derogatory images” of the West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee to many recipients and mocking Trinamool government’s policies.
The cartoon based on Satyajit Ray’s movie Sonar Kella, allegedly show Mamata and Railways Minister Mukul Roy discussing how to get rid of party MP Dinesh Trivedi.
Trinamool workers allegedly raided Mahapatra’s residence at New Garia in the southern fringes of Kolkata before the police picked him up. They also allegedly manhandled the professor.
Police have charged Ambikesh Mahapatra with cyber crime offences.  He  has been booked for defaming Mamata. Section 66 of the Information Technology Act, 2000 and Section 500 of the Indian Penal Code (punishment for defamation) have been slapped on the professor, who was arrested on charges of forwarding “derogatory images” of the West Bengal Chief Minister to nearly 65 recipients and mocking her government policies.
Prof Mahapatra would be produced in the Alipore court later today.
Drawing a Cartoon is Not a Crime. But spreading it via Internet may be considered / construed to be a Crime by the powers that be at least in not so liberal states of India.
Cartoons of Sm. Mamata Banerjee are being telecast almost everyday in different TV channels but they are not being arrested, then why Ambikesh Mahapatra was arrested. Communists like Ambikesh Mahapatra having underground activities are still destroying west bengal even after 34 years. So there needs an immediate plan to vanish such people.
Today’s World Must Understand the Crimes of Communism in Order to Survive.
“There are substantial similarities between Nazism and Communism in terms of their horrific and appalling character and their crimes against humanity….
Both the Nazi and Communist totalitarian regimes each to be judged by their own terrible merits to be destructive in their policies of systematically applying extreme forms of terror, suppressing all civic and human liberties, starting aggressive wars and, as an inseparable part of their ideologies, exterminating and deporting whole nations and groups of population; and that as such they should be considered to be the main disasters which blighted the 20th century.â€
if the Communists had not backed Hitler during the 1939-1941 period there would have very possibly not been any Second World War or Holocaust at all.
The crimes of Nazism and fascism have been discussed at great length in the public sphere whereas the equivalents from Communism have not. This should be done to serve “as a warning for future generations†and ensure that “children could learn and be warned about Communism and its crimes in the same way as they have been taught to assess the Nazi crimes.â€