Another local journalist based in Bastar found himself on the wrong side of the Chhattisgarh police, when he was picked up on Monday evening at 6pm. Prabhat Singh, a journalist based in Dantewada, in south Bastar was produced before a magistrate on Tuesday evening, where he stated that he had been beaten in police custody and not given food all night.
Singh’s lawyer, Kishore Narain, who practices in the Bilaspur high court, told dna that Singh had been slapped with Sec 67 and 67(a) of the IT Act, which makes publishing or transmitting obscene material in electronic form an offence. He did say that, “the accused has never shared any sexually explicit material on whatsapp or Facebook so the section does not hold.” However, the magistrate felt that the matter needed probing and denied the bail plea.
