3 Faridabad scribes, teacher held for posting ‘objectionable content’

FARIDABAD: A j unior school teacher and three local journalists of Faridabad were arrested for allegedly posting ‘objectionable comment’ on Facebook against a senior woman leader of BJP from Faridabad.

The four were arrested by the crime investigating agency (CIA) of the Faridabad police.

Police said the journalists, who have been charged under sections 499 (words or action intend- ing to harm a person’s reputation) and 67(publishing or transmitting obscene material in electronic form) of the IT Act, run web portals.

The senior woman BJP leader had filed a complaint against the four at the Surajkund police station on April 16.

According to the first information report, the woman alleged that Shiv Kumar Mudgal,who works as a teacher, had posted ‘objectionable content on social media’ against her.

The content was allegedly car- ried by three different web portals run by Sanjay Kapoor, Navin Damija and Navin Gupta.

Police said the four had applied for anticipatory bail in a local court, which was rejected last week. Police arrested the four on Friday and produced them before a court, which sent them to three-day police custody. “They tried to tarnish my image by posting objectionable comments on social media and on web-portals,” the woman said.

The officer in charge said the four men are being questioned. NEW DELHI: A 42-year-old man allegedly slashed his wrists in an attempt to commit suicide outside the residence of Union home minister Rajnath Singh at Akbar Road in New Delhi on Friday morning.

Police recovered a handwritten note in which in which the man, Raj Kumar, said he was being kept ‘under surveillance by satellites and GPS’.

A police team rushed him to the hospital, where his condition is stable.

Prima facie, doctors said he may be mentally unstable.

“An incoherently written complaint was recovered from his possession,” an official said.