Jadavpur University Professor arrested for spreading offensive cartoon of Mamata Banerjee

          This is the first time in Kolkata that someone arrested for sharing offensive content in the internet. Ambikesh Mahapatra a Chemistry Professor of Jadavpur University arrested today along with his neighbor Subrata Sengupta. It is being said that Mr. Mahapatra has sent the email with the alleged photo attached to around 65 people.

Ambikesh Mahapatra

          The picture spread by was made upon the incident of sack of Dinesh Trivedi from the railway ministry & appointment of Mukul Roy for the same post. The image is based on the story of Satyajit Ray's Sonar Kella and in the picture Mukul Roy & Mamata Banerjee are shown as a menace to sack Dinesh Trivedi from the ministry. The picture was around Facebook in recent times & Trinamool Congress supporter's facebook group charged the professor from that.
          Central IT Minister Kapil Sibal was raising his concern over the censorship of internet for last 5-6 months & this is the first time since then that someone is being charged for spreading offensive content in the internet. And that too in Kolkata where most of our production houses are reluctant to catch pirates & cyber cell officials are very less active on content filtering. You might also know that in this incident Professor Ambikesh Mahapatra was directly not charged by the police or cyber law officials. It was the Trinamool Congress supporters who attacked his residence from where the police get the clue and arrested him. Now we are observing a serious debate is going on the media & social networking sites that if the arrest was a legit or just an autocracy by the Trinamool Govt. Let them continue, we will update more information upon arrival.