Man held for anti-Modi tweets, booked under section 66A
Amresh Mishra, an author, was arrested by a Lucknow Police team in Gurgaon on Wednesday over antiModi tweets and booked under section 66A of the Information Technology Act (sending offensive messages through electronic means).
The Gurgaon police on Wednesday arrested Amaresh Misra, 48, who had threatened to shoot Narendra Modi dead, on Twitter.
A Lucknow police team arrested Misra from Gurgaon’s Sector 56, said Gurgaon police commissioner Alok Mittal.
Vivek Sharma, joint commissioner ( crime) said, “A seven- member police team reached Gurgaon and arrested him. He was produced before a duty magistrate for transit remand and the Lucknow police took him after completing the legal formalities.”
Misra, the co-writer of story and screenplay of the 2013 Bollywood multi-starrer Bullett Raja, was booked under section 153A of the Indian Penal Code and 66A of the IT Act.
His Twitter account has already been suspended. Misra was a student of the Allahabad Univeristy and has been associated with the left-wing party, CPI-ML. He also founded an anticommunal front in UP. His twitter account described Mishra as an author and a music composer.
Twitter declined to comment on the suspension of Misra’s account, which reportedly came soon after his arrest. “We cannot keep track of millions of our users,” said a Twitter official.