Teacher Arrested for an old Facebook Post for this reason!

As per News 18 reports, a government college teacher was arrested for allegedly writing an "objectionable post" on Facebook two years ago in support of a beef party in Chennai. The teacher identified as Jeetrai Hansda, is a contractual faculty member in the Jamshedpur Co-operative College.

As per News 18 report, Rajeev Singh, the officer-in-charge of Sakchi police station, told PTI that, the teacher was apprehended from a village in Sakchi area of Jamshedpur on Saturday night. The teacher had been evading arrest quite sometime. "Hansda has been booked under various sections of the IPC and the IT Act, and the process to forward him to judicial custody is currently underway."

"The teacher, had allegedly written a post in support of a beef party organised by the IIT-Madras students, prompting the Akhil Bharatiya Vishwa Parishad (ABVP), the student's wing of the RSS, to file a complaint against him. The beef fest was organized at IIT-Madras in 2017 in protest against the restrictions imposed on cattle trade by the Union government. The student's union had demanded the sacking of Hansda. The post was then deleted," the officer added.

Media reports state that, further giving his opinion on the issue, Kolhan University vice-chancellor Shukla Mohanty said Hansda was a guest faculty member of the Graduate School College for Women when he posted the message on Facebook. He was later absorbed as a contractual teacher in the women's college.