Times of India: Cuttack: Thursday, August 10, 2017.
RTI activist
Jayanta Das, who was recently convicted in a cyberporn case in Puri, could be
in for more trouble. The police are planning to seek his remand in connection
with a case registered against him at Lalbag police station here in 2016 for
allegedly posting derogatory remarks against Puri Gajapati and another person
on a social networking site.
To initiate
investigation in the case, the police have appealed before the Puri court that
they be allowed to bring Das to Cuttack. Accordingly, Das was produced before
the court of sub-divisional judicial magistrate (SDJM) here on Tuesday but the
judge posted the matter for hearing on August 19. Das, meanwhile, had filed a
bail petition but it was rejected, following which he was sent to Puri jail.
The case was
registered against Das under Sections 292 (obscene text), 295A (malicious act
to outrage religious feeling) and 504 (insult to breach peace) of the IPC and
67 of Information Technology Act, but the police were so far not able to
proceed with the investigation. "But following his conviction in the Puri
case, the police will now start probe into the case," government lawyer
Biswajit Baral said. tnn
Das had
allegedly posted defamatory comments against Puri Gajapati Maharaj on Facebook.
He had allegedly used offensive language like land grabber, fraud and joker
against the Puri king without evidence, which was opposed to by a Cuttack-based
lawyer Jaya Sankar Acharya.
Following the
lawyer's reply, Das had allegedly passed some comments insulting Acharya's late
father, who was in the Army. Taking note of it, Acharya had lodged an FIR with
the cyber cell of the crime branch. The crime branch in July 2016 had referred
the matter to Lalbag police station for investigation.
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