[Debate] Fwd: PROTEST AGAINST WHITE TERROR UNLEASHED BY MAMATA BANERJEE

[Jai Sen]

Friday, 13 April 2012



Worlds in movement…

More on and from the situation unfolding in Kolkata… just so that you  
know (and with apologies for not also pasting this news into my  
posting on Kolkata just now) :

PROTEST AGAINST WHITE TERROR UNLEASHED BY MAMATA BANERJEE

Jadavpur University professor arrested for spreading 'anti-Mamata'  
cartoons



             JS

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Begin forwarded message:

> From: asit das <asit1917 at gmail.com>
> Date: April 13 2012 5:32:32 AM GMT-04:00
> To: indiaclimatejustice <indiaclimatejustice at googlegroups.com>
> Subject: (indiaclimatejustice) PROTEST AGAINST WHITE TERROR  
> UNLEASHED BY MAMATA BANERJEE
> Reply-To: indiaclimatejustice at googlegroups.com
PROTEST AGAINST WHITE TERROR UNLEASHED BY MAMATA BANERJEE

Dear Friends and Comrades,

After the brutal police lathi charge on poor Slum Dwellers of  
Nonadanga kolkata on 4th April, the Trinamul Congress goons attacked a  
peaceful procession of a democratic rights group in Kolata(APDR).  
While slapping nonbailable  criminal charges against seven activist  
who were remanded to police custody. Yesterday they were produced in  
court which has remanded them to Judicial custody until April 26th.  
One of them Debolina was forcible taken away by the state CID for  
further interrogation possible to implicate her on charges of being a  
Maoist. We afraid she will be physically tortured in police custody.  
The police under Mamata Banerjee carries on it fascist terror with  
impunity. The entire democratic and progressive individuals of this  
country are outraged by this unfolding white terror in West Bengal.

On Thursday night a chemistry professor of Jadavpur University was  
physically attacked by Trinamul Goons and was arrested under IT Act  
for a very innocent and innocuous cartoon. Below is the report on IBN  
Live.

We request the progressive and democratic organizations to protest  
against this white terror unleashed by Mamata Banerjee in West Bengal.

Jadavpur University professor arrested for spreading 'anti-Mamata'  
cartoons

CNN-IBN

Kolkata: A Jadavpur University professor and his neighbour were  
arrested on Friday morning for allegedly spreading "anti-Mamata  
Banerjee" cartoons on the Internet. Ambikesh Mahapatra, a teacher with  
the Chemistry Department of the University, and his neighbour, Subrata  
Sengupta, were picked up on Thursday night by the police for allegedly  
forwarding cartoons of Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress  
supremo Mamata Banerjee.

The cartoon, based on Satyajit Ray's movie Sonar Kella, allegedly  
shows Mamata and Railways Minister Mukul Roy discussing how to get rid  
of party MP Dinesh Trivedi.

Mahapatra has been booked for defaming Mamata. Section 66 of the  
Information Technology Act, 2000 and Section 500, 509 and 114 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.

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.

Even though Mahapatra was picked up on Thursday night the police  
showed his arrest only on Friday morning after he had been forced to  
spend the night at East Jadavpur Police Station. The professor will  
now be produced in the Alipore court.

Sources say it is quite an unprecedented incident and point out that  
Mamata is becoming increasingly intolerant to any incident that shows  
her in bad light, even if it is innocuous.





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