Lucknow, Feb 5 (IANS) A man in Agra has been arrested for "communal and inflammatory"

posts on social networking siteFacebook targeting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh,

unionCommunications Minister Kapil Sibal and Uttar Pradesh's ruling Samajwadi Party (SP)
chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, police said Tuesday.
Sanjay Chowdhary, a resident of the Dayalbagh suburb of Agra, was arrested late Monday and his
laptop, sim card and data card impounded.
Police in Agra, about 360 km from here, said the arrest, which some see as an attempt to muzzle
freedom of speech and expression onsocial networking sites, that the arrest was made on
"specific information" about certain "communal and inflammatory" posts by Chowdhary.
However, officials here admitted that the "case became hypersensitive after some remarks were
made on the SP chief".
Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Agra, Subhash Chandra Dubeysaid police had acted
"purely on law and order basis" in the matter.
"We are not involved in the political angle of the whole issue, our concern were the inflammatory
comments and posts on the Facebook wall of this man and we acted to prevent any communal
flare up," Dubey told IANS.
Some officials, however, said the case was "fast tracked" once cartoons lampooning the three
leaders were posted on his Facebook wall.
Soon after his arrest, the inflammatory posts were deleted from his Facebook profile and later his
account was deactivated.
Chowdhury, a civil engineer and chairman of a public school, was booked under sections 153 A of
the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and 66 A of the Information Technology (IT) Act.
"We have arrested him and he is being sent to jail under the due process of law," a police official
said.
Two people were arrested on similar grounds in Hyderabad Jan 11 at Bhainsa town of Adilabad
district for allegedly posting a hateful statement against a community on networking site
Facebook.
Last year, the arrest of two girls of a Mumbai suburb for commenting on late Shiv Sena supremo
Bal Thackeray had created a stir with Maharashtra Police being criticised in many quarters for its
hasty decision.
A sessions court in Palghar, Maharashtra, had later dropped the cases against the girls after the
police filed a closure report.

only politicians have all the right to indulge in verbal expression of all sorts....they have the costutional
protection. We as common citizen have to depend on them to voice our pleasure or
displeasure...where are we heading?
Mumbai, Jan 31 (IANS) A Maharashtra court Thursday dropped all charges against two women
who wrote comments on Facebookquestioning the shutdown in the city after Shiv
Sena patriarch Bal Thackeray's death Nov 17 last year, a lawyer said.
Judicial magistrate V.S. Yadav based in Palghar in Thane district offered relief to Shaheen
Dhada and Renu Srinivasan, the accused's lawyer Sudhir Gupta told IANS.
"The judicial magistrate scrapped all charges accepting the closure report filed by the police in
December, 2012," Gupta said.
"The magistrate accepted the police report which said that girls did not intend to offend and they
only exercised their right to freedom of expression," he added.
On Nov 18, police arrested Shaheen, who posted a comment on her Facebook account
questioning the shutdown after Thackeray's death. Her friend Renu, who had 'liked' the Facebook
comment, was also arrested.
The arrests triggered a nationwide outrage, following which Superintendent of Police (Thane
Rural) Ravindra Sengaonkar and Palghar police chief Senior Inspector Shrikant Pingle were
suspended and a departmental probe ordered against them.
Additional Superintendent of Police (Thane Rural) Sangram Nishandar was warned to be alert
while dealing with such cases. Nishandar is alleged to have played a major role in siding with the
Shiv Sena and ensuring the arrests of the two women.
The Bombay High Court also transferred the magistrate who approved the police action and
released the women on a bail of Rs.15,000 each.

my dear court ur duty is not just to drop charges against those girls ....infact now file the charges
against those policemen and that judge who had passed that idiotic judgement