The Assam Police on Wednesday arrested regional news portal Pratibimba Live’s Editor-in-Chief Taufiq Uddin Ahmed, news editor Iqbal and four others for allegedly sharing a photograph of Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma with “salacious intent”, and maligning his image, The Indian Express reported.
Ahmed and Iqbal, along with two other employees of Pratibimba Live, Puli Muchchary associated with Bodoland Digital and Nang Noyonmoni Gogoi from Spotlight Assam, were booked under Section 509 (intending to insult the modesty of any woman) of the Indian Penal Code and various sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act.
The charges against them are related a photograph Partibimba Live carried in an article that showed the Bharatiya Janata Party leader hugging a girl. The website did not mention that the girl was Sarma’s daughter, a minor, the police said.
The photograph went viral on social media, following which Sarma took to Twitter and clarified…