New Mamata cartoon, prof files a complaint
Within a week of the controversy over West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s cartoon on a popular social networking site leading to the arrest of Jadavpur University professor Ambikesh Mahapatra, another cartoon on the firebrand Trinamul Congress chief has surfaced on the same site.
The latest one is a sketch of a woman without a head. On Saturday night, a doctor of the government-run Midnapore Medical College and Hospital, Bickram Saha lodged a complaint with the police against two persons alleging that they had circulated the cartoon, denigrating Ms Banerjee.
In his complaint with the Kotwali police station in West Midnapore, the associate professor of medicine has accused Proloy Mitra and Chinmay Roy for forwarding him the cartoon of a woman without a head in a white sari.
A comment posted in the cartoon reads, “Our CM has lost her head,” he mentioned in the complaint.
Dr Saha added, “These two persons (Mr Mitra and Mr Roy) are behind the malicious mail which denigrates the chief minister. So I have register a complaint against them.”
Superintendent of police (West Midnapore) Sunil Chaudhury said, “The cartoon contains the sketch of a headless woman. So it cannot be confirmed that it belongs to the chief minister.” He added, “A comment ‘Paschimbanga Vanish’ is in the cartoon. A general diary has been done and a report is being sent to the criminal investigation department. No one has been arrested.”
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Govt must check social media misuse: katju
age Correspondent
New Delhi, April 22
Demanding checks on the social media, PCI chairman Justice (Retd) Markandey Katju on Sunday urged the government to set up a team to find ways of stopping its misuse against people and groups.
In a letter to Union 1&B minister Ambika Soni, he has said that freedom of the media has to be linked with responsibilities. “A new practice has developed in the social media of its misuse for defaming people/groups/religions/communities. The recent example is of dissemination of a CD which even the author admitted had been distorted for defaming a reputed senior lawyer of the SC and MP, and the threat to defame a Union minister,” his letter stated.
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