Bengal: BJP Worker Arrested for Sharing Morphed Photos of Mamata

Babuya Ghosh had reportedly shared a morphed picture of Mamata and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik.

File image of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. 

(Photo: IANS)

A young BJP worker from West Bengal’s Salboni district was arrested from his home on Tuesday, 18 September, for sharing obscene and morphed images of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Facebook.

28-year-old Babuya Ghosh, a BJP worker, had reportedly shared a morphed picture of Mamata and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, with the caption saying: “When you don't get married at a right age”, NDTV reported.

The picture, captioned in Bengali, originally read: “If a man doesn't get married at right age he can go mad, but everyone in West Bengal can understand what happens when a woman does not get married on time.”

Once the locals saw the morphed picture of Mamata being shared on Facebook, they notified the police on Monday. Babuya was, thus, tracked down and arrested from his house on Tuesday.

Referring to the arrest, Kabita Das, Inspector, District Enforcement Branch of West Midnapore district police told NDTV:

“He had shared an obscene post on Facebook about West Bengal Chief Minister and Odisha Chief Minister. We received a complaint from Salboni police station and acted on it. We are still investigating the case.”

Kabita Das, Inspector, West Midnapore

A case has been registered under Section 65 of IT act (for tampering with computer source document), and Sections 292 and 504 of the Indian Penal Code against Babuya.

Babuya, an active district-level BJP worker from the Salboni district, has been seen in the same frame as several BJP leaders including BJP state President Dilip Ghosh, DNA reported.

(With inputs from NDTV and DNA)