|
Police cut short quizzing cartoonist Aseem
Trivedi
Monday September 10, 2012 06:28:37 PM,
IANS
|
|
|
|
|
Related Article |
|
Anna's cartoonist supporter sent to police custody
A Mumbai court
Sunday remanded Aseem Trivedi, an Anna Hazare supporter and
political cartoonist, to seven days police custody for drawing an
allegedly derogatory sketch and uploading it on his web portal, an
activist said.
»
|
Mumbai: Barely a day
after a cartoonist Aseem Trivedi was sent to seven days police
custody after being arrested on sedition charges, investigators
cut short his questioning and presented him in a Mumbai court
Monday. He was sent to judicial custody till Sep 24, an activist
said.
Trivedi, 25, an anti-corruption campaigner, is accused of
uploading "ugly and obscene" matter on his web portal and putting
up objectionable banners insulting the constitution during Anna
Hazare's anti-corruption agitation here last December.
He was nabbed by police from Bandra-Kurla after a non-bailable
warrant was issued against him. A Bandra magistrate Sunday sent
him to seven days police custody.
Police, however, questioned him for a day and decided not to grill
him any further. The sudden turnaround by police on the duration
of Trivedi's custodial interrogation came after a furore over his
arrest late Saturday.
Trivedi faces sedition charge under Section 124A of the Indian
Penal Code, along with other offences under the Information
Technology Act.
An India Against Corruption (IAC) activist said the cartoonist
Monday was also permitted to briefly meet his lawyer and social
workers who have been protesting against his arrest.
In Nashik, Maharashtra Home Minister R.R. Patil earlier assured
reporters that Trivedi would not remain in police custody after
investigations in the case were completed.
"Aseem told us that he is prepared to remain in custody for as
long as required and would not appoint a lawyer or seek bail until
the charge of sedition slapped on him were dropped," IAC member
Preeti Menon told IANS.
The IAC demanded that Trivedi should be released unconditionally
and all the charges against him, including the baseless sedition
charge, must be dropped.
In New Delhi, Press Council of India chairman Markandey Katju
termed the sedition charge against Trivedi as "stupid" and
demanded action against politicians and police responsible for
arresting the cartoonist.
A statement issued by the IAC said that Trivedi's harassment
"smacks of vendetta against the anti-corruption movement, and
portrays sign of a paranoid state".
"IAC firmly stands for freedom of expression and expresses its
anguish against a growing culture of intolerance for creative
expression in the public domain," the statement added.
|
|
Home |
Top of the Page
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
i |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
More Headlines |
|
Police crack down on Kudankulam protest, enter
village |
|
Eleven killed, over 25 missing as boat
capsizes in Bihar |
|
Tripura to build science village |
|
Proteins' absence causes diabetes, rheumatoid
arthritis |
|
Monsoon justice for Modi’s Gujarat |
|
Obama has 5 point lead over Romney: Poll |
|
Bars cannot discriminate against Sikhs,
Muslims in California |
|
'Significant headway due to thaw in India-Pakistan relations' |
|
31 killed in Syrian bombings |
|
Now, a technique to regularise abnormal
heartbeats |
|
Samajwadi Party has no immediate plans for third front: Nanda |
|
|
|
Top Stories |
|
 Manmohan watches as 100th Indian space mission
blasts off
An Indian rocket carrying two satellites blasted off from
the first launch pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre here in
Andhra Pradesh Sunday, with the launch being witnessed
»
India: From ferrying rockets on cycles to
eyeing Mars
Countdown begins for 100th Indian rocket
mission
|
|
|
|
Most Read |
|
 'Significant headway due to thaw in India-Pakistan relations'
Significant
headway has been made in the past two years due to the thaw in the
India-Pakistan relations, a leading Pakistani daily said Monday.
"Ever since India re-engaged in dialogue
»
|
|
Bars cannot discriminate against Sikhs,
Muslims in California
California Governor Jerry Brown has
signed two bills designed to battle workplace discrimination
against Sikhs and Muslim by shunting workers wearing turbans,
beards and hijabs to backroom jobs out of public view. "This bill,
AB 1964, makes it very clear that wearing any type of religious
»
|
|
|
|
News Pick |
|
Thakerays are 'infiltrators'; should leave
Maharashtra: Lalu Prasad
Rashtriya Janata
Dal chief Lalu Prasad Sunday said Bal Thackeray, Uddhav Thackeray
and Raj Thackeray were originally Bihari, and that they were
"infiltrators" in
»
|
|
India, China, Pakistan dialogue on Afghanistan?
With the
prospect of regional rivalries intensifying over Afghanistan,
China is thinking of proposing a trilateral dialogue among New
Delhi, Beijing and Islamabad on Afghanistan, a tricky proposition
given the rivalry between India and Pakistan in the Afghan
theatre. "Many Chinese scholars
»
|
|
Rajasthan announces separate department for
development of minorities
Despite the Sachar Committee Report of
2006 that showed that the literacy rate among Muslims being far
lower than national average, and their representation in
managerial and professional
»
|
|
Father of White Revolution Verghese Kurien is dead
Verghese Kurien, who brought milk
revolution in the country, died Sunday in a hospital in Nadiad
following a prolonged illness, an official said. He was 91.
He is survived by wife Molly and daughter Nirmala, said Gujarat
Co-Operative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF) Managing Director
»
|
|
|
|
Picture of the Day |
|
 |
|
President
Pranab Mukherjee presenting the National Award for
Teacher-2011 to Mrs. Javeeda Akhtar Khan, Jammu & Kashmir, on
the occasion of the ‘Teachers Day’, in New Delhi on September
05, 2012. Union Minister for Human Resource Development and
Communications and Information Technology Kapil Sibal and
Minister of State for External Affairs and Human Resource
Development E. Ahamed are also seen. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Comments
|
Quick links