TEAM HERALD
PANJIM: An anti-Narendra Modi comment on social networking site during the Lok Sabha election campaign could land Devu Chodankar 33-year-old marine engineer in jail, with police insisting on his custodial interrogation while accusing him of trying to promote communal and social disharmony in the State.
The District and Sessions Court also rejected Chodankar’s anticipatory bail plea after the police in their prayer asked for his custodial interrogation to establish the motive and want to arrest him to recover cyber forensic evidence and more importantly to find out if there was any motive to promote communal and social disharmony in the State.
Businessman Atul Pai Kane had lodged a complaint against Chodankar over his postings/comments made on the Goa Plus Group on Facebook. Based on the complaint the police have filed a case under sections 153 and section 295 A IPC, sec 123 of representation of Peoples Act and sec 66 (A) of the Information Technology Act 2000 is registered upon a complaint filed by.
Police Inspector Rajesh Job of the cyber cell, in his complaint filed before the court said, “Custodial interrogation of the accused is very much essential to find out any motive of larger game plan to promote communal and social disharmony in the State.” Chodankar in his Facebook post had said that “if Modi is elected as a Prime Minister, Christians will lose their identity in South Goa,” and that “there is imminent threat of holocaust as it happened in Gujarat through the garb of cunning government policies of Parrikar.” The post was later withdrawn.
