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Anna's cartoonist supporter sent to police custody
Sunday September 09, 2012 08:41:25 PM,
IANS
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Mumbai: 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.
Trivedi, 25, an activist of India Against Corruption, was picked
up Saturday evening by Mumbai police from Bandra-Kurla following a
non-bailable arrest warrant issued against him.
He is accused of uploading "ugly and obscene" matter on his web
portal and for putting up objectionable banners insulting the
Indian constitution during Anna Hazare's anti-corruption agitation
here last December.
He was presented before a magistrate Sunday and remanded to police
custody for questioning, an IAC spokesperson said.
Trivedi faces sedition charges under Section 124A of the Indian
Penal Code, among other offences under the Information Technology
Act.
An IAC spokesperson claimed that police did not allow them to meet
Trivedi when they went to meet him in the lock-up in the morning
to discuss his defence procedures.
"Even in the court, they (police) did not allow the IAC people to
meet him and in fact they roughed up and bluffed IAC volunteers
who had gathered in support of Trivedi outside the court," the
spokesperson said.
The IAC alleged Trivedi "was badly roughed up and pushed into the
police vehicle where his head banged against the vehicle body".
"We are shocked at the way an artist and activist is being treated
by police. The IAC Mumbai will always support freedom of
expression which is the right of every individual given to us by
the constitution," the IAC said.
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