Now, a Facebook 'like' leads to sedition charges in India

[KRAIT]

KOCHI: Clicking on the 'like' button on Facebook has landed K H Muhammed Ali, a native of Eloor and Dubai municipality employee, in deep trouble. He has been charged with sedition and insulting national honour.

The only crime that Ali remembers doing is clicking 'like' on the Facebook profiles of friends, including a few Pakistanis, he earned in Dubai.

Now, the Kochi police have booked him for sedition, sending offensive message (66A of Information Technology Act, 2000), and for insulting the national flag (section 2 of Prevention of Insults to National Honor Act, 1971).

In the FIR filed in September 2012, it is alleged that Ali clicked 'like' on a Facebook page titled 'I Love Pakistan' and that a picture showing a dog clothed in the national flag was seen in his Facebook profile page.

On Tuesday, Ali filed a petition at the Kerala high court, through advocate K K Ashkar, challenging the FIR registered by the Eloor police.

Ali has contended in the petition that his Facebook account doesn't bear the message 'I Love Pakistan', doesn't have any pictures showing disrespect to the national flag, nor has sent any offensive message or pictures showing disrespect to the national flag.

He further pointed out that registering of FIR in cyber cases without a pre-investigation inquiry by an investigative agency with expertise in information technology is against the rules stipulated in the cyber crime investigation manual, the only such manual in India that was released by the Union home secretary.

After police registered the FIR alleging sedition, he and his family have been facing social stigma, Ali's petition said. His family has been isolated by the local community and relatives and they are being treated like traitors. His wife and younger child have been traumatized by the ordeal, the petition stated.

Kochi city police commissioner arrived at a hypothetical inference that amounts to character assassination, the petitioner alleged.

The petitioner has cited the commissioner's remark, which is extracted in the FIR, stating "as petitioner was working in UAE and his remark in the Facebook 'I Love Pakistan' and his close relation with Pakistanis in UAE may indulge in antisocial activities". Such a casual statement prejudicially affects the liberty of the petitioner and has caused mental trauma, social ostracism, and persecution, it is alleged.

Now, a Facebook 'like' leads to sedition charges - Times Of India

 

[haviZsultan]

This has always been the case. Many others have the same problem. Muslims are basically constantly made aware that they are Pakistanis and belong there. My cousin from a young age during talk of cricket matches was always told "tum toh Pakistan ko support kar rahey ho ge?"

While I was in Lucknow I brought this really cool Pakistani t-shirt, words like Pakistan Zindabad on it and other stuff. I was wearing it and when it went for a wash to the laundry-well never saw it again. My relatives hid it I believe.

A Muslim is always linked to Pakistan in some way or the other.
Because of us too. We just don't leave them and our ancestral homes and consider them a part of our clan, our family. I remember a friend. Got to actually know him through another group related to SW. He moved from Hyderabad and was also from one of the families there killed in Afzalganj riots.

Now says all Muslims are Pakistani. No Muslim can be an Indian. He really dislikes the place.

Now its 2 years ago but one day some of his relatives contact me, that guy is going to get all of us killed here. The others don't want us to have any link to Pakistan. They wanted me to actually stop him because he had threatened some RSS gundas and they were looking for him. They broke into Syed Haveli in Hyderabad or something.

Its these kinds of things that don't let Muslims integrate, sadly.

 

[KRAIT]

@haviZsultan Don't give your personal accounts as a base point. It may work for other Pakistanis but not here.

BTW, Zaheer Khan, Mohmd, Azhruddin, Mohmd. Kaif, Shami Ahmed etc. etc. have proved that they like to bash Pakistan every now and then. And who can forget Irfan Pathan's hattrick.

 

[Icewolf]

ISI agent doing their job

 

[Bang Galore]

KOCHI: Clicking on the 'like' button on Facebook has landed K H Muhammed Ali, a native of Eloor and Dubai municipality employee, in deep trouble. He has been charged with sedition and insulting national honour.

The only crime that Ali remembers doing is clicking 'like' on the Facebook profiles of friends, including a few Pakistanis, he earned in Dubai.

Now, the Kochi police have booked him for sedition, sending offensive message (66A of Information Technology Act, 2000), and for insulting the national flag (section 2 of Prevention of Insults to National Honor Act, 1971).

In the FIR filed in September 2012, it is alleged that Ali clicked 'like' on a Facebook page titled 'I Love Pakistan' and that a picture showing a dog clothed in the national flag was seen in his Facebook profile page.

On Tuesday, Ali filed a petition at the Kerala high court, through advocate K K Ashkar, challenging the FIR registered by the Eloor police.

Ali has contended in the petition that his Facebook account doesn't bear the message 'I Love Pakistan', doesn't have any pictures showing disrespect to the national flag, nor has sent any offensive message or pictures showing disrespect to the national flag.

He further pointed out that registering of FIR in cyber cases without a pre-investigation inquiry by an investigative agency with expertise in information technology is against the rules stipulated in the cyber crime investigation manual, the only such manual in India that was released by the Union home secretary.

After police registered the FIR alleging sedition, he and his family have been facing social stigma, Ali's petition said. His family has been isolated by the local community and relatives and they are being treated like traitors. His wife and younger child have been traumatized by the ordeal, the petition stated.

Kochi city police commissioner arrived at a hypothetical inference that amounts to character assassination, the petitioner alleged.

The petitioner has cited the commissioner's remark, which is extracted in the FIR, stating "as petitioner was working in UAE and his remark in the Facebook 'I Love Pakistan' and his close relation with Pakistanis in UAE may indulge in antisocial activities". Such a casual statement prejudicially affects the liberty of the petitioner and has caused mental trauma, social ostracism, and persecution, it is alleged.

Now, a Facebook 'like' leads to sedition charges - Times Of India

Stupidity all round.

 

[Cherokee]

@haviZsultan . I know you are a fiction writer , but you don't have to add fiction in every post of yours dude !!!!!

@On Topic

Stupid Police . Surely the case will crash in courts and they will be embarrassed .

 

[KRAIT]

Stupidity all round.

Stupidity ? This is madness.

I mean arrest those who disrespect our flad, but liking a Facebook page. Hell we can get arrested for posting on PDF.

Funny thing is, same people were cheering in Indo-Pak match and Aman ki Asha. Seems like all love lost.

 

[Bang Galore]

Stupidity ? This is madness.

I mean arrest those who disrespect our flad, but liking a Facebook page. Hell we can get arrested for posting on PDF.

Funny thing is, same people were cheering in Indo-Pak match and Aman ki Asha. Seems like all love lost.

A lot of people posting here could be theoretically arrested. Communal comments are liable.

 

[Icewolf]

Stupidity ? This is madness.

I mean arrest those who disrespect our flad, but liking a Facebook page. Hell we can get arrested for posting on PDF.

Funny thing is, same people were cheering in Indo-Pak match and Aman ki Asha. Seems like all love lost.

We advise you to leave PDF at once at your own risk, that is.

 

[haviZsultan]

@haviZsultan Don't give your personal accounts as a base point. It may work for other Pakistanis but not here.

BTW, Zaheer Khan, Mohmd, Azhruddin, Mohmd. Kaif, Shami Ahmed etc. etc. have proved that they like to bash Pakistan every now and then. And who can forget Irfan Pathan's hattrick.

Lol. I still have to come to understand this insecurity. Isn't this thread about sedition charges virtually against anyone who is a Muslim? I don't remember Gandhi's grandson being charged with sedition for threatening to cut the heads of Muslims. Owaisi is planning sedition, this guy is doing the same... who else? The guy who converted to Islam and his Indian citizenship was revoked? Him too?

Also there are times Muslims are forced to bash Pakistan to fit in. I can give you a few cases of these.

Growing up in Gujarat, even if a Muslim has nothing to do with Pakistan, he or she will often be expected to prove their patriotism to India and ‘thus’ hatred for Pakistan, the most visible examples of which can be felt during an India v/s Pakistan cricket encounter. As a result of these enforced emotions, my view on Pakistan is a bit like my view on Muslims. I am very critical of them myself but don’t feel the best when someone else criticises them because I am known as one myself.

However when I think about Pakistan disconnecting myself from past experiences, I am fascinated by stories of their music, films, royalty and kind treatment to Indians but besides these, I don’t have much of an opinion on them. Just another country.

Look at this: above qoute taken from here.

By the way these guys. From some family experiences of distant members in Deccan and knowledge of cases of people that moved, almost each one I talked to did so due to a traumatic event and a number had Anti-Indian feelings. So basically Gujarat genocide acts as a catalyst for anti-Indian and Pro-Pakistani emotions. The comment I posted is surprising because it is from a victim of the riots or genocide... whatever you call it.
@KRAIT you won't be arrested for being on PDF. @ajtr however might be. It comes with being a Muslim and there is a major stigma attached to it. You can take all the sedition cases in the past 30 years. 90% of them are on Muslims. Its a major problem.

 

[KS]

Looks like Facebook hunting is the trend now among the police in India..


Now, arrests in AP over Facebook comments

After Maharashtra police, it is now the turn of their Andhra Pradesh counterparts to arrest two youngsters for posting “inflammatory messages” on their Facebook pages.

The two were Hindus..so apparently the police dont discriminate on religious grounds..

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I don't remember Gandhi's grandson being charged with sedition for threatening to cut the heads of Muslims. .

You would not remember because he said no such thing. He did not threaten to cut the 'heads' of Muslims..but his exact speech was - 'any hand that raises itself against Hindus would be cut'.

And a far more potent National Security Act was charged against him.

 

[Ayush]

personally I don't c any problem in liking a pic saying I love pakistan. but if there was this dog in the pic, he should be punished.
but then he may not have seen it.
but then who is to decide that?

and ppl like @haviZsultan have found a new thread to start trolling.

 

[AnnoyingOrange]

KOCHI: Clicking on the 'like' button on Facebook has landed K H Muhammed Ali, a native of Eloor and Dubai municipality employee, in deep trouble. He has been charged with sedition and insulting national honour.

The only crime that Ali remembers doing is clicking 'like' on the Facebook profiles of friends, including a few Pakistanis, he earned in Dubai.

Now, the Kochi police have booked him for sedition, sending offensive message (66A of Information Technology Act, 2000), and for insulting the national flag (section 2 of Prevention of Insults to National Honor Act, 1971).

In the FIR filed in September 2012, it is alleged that Ali clicked 'like' on a Facebook page titled 'I Love Pakistan' and that a picture showing a dog clothed in the national flag was seen in his Facebook profile page.

On Tuesday, Ali filed a petition at the Kerala high court, through advocate K K Ashkar, challenging the FIR registered by the Eloor police.

Ali has contended in the petition that his Facebook account doesn't bear the message 'I Love Pakistan', doesn't have any pictures showing disrespect to the national flag, nor has sent any offensive message or pictures showing disrespect to the national flag.

He further pointed out that registering of FIR in cyber cases without a pre-investigation inquiry by an investigative agency with expertise in information technology is against the rules stipulated in the cyber crime investigation manual, the only such manual in India that was released by the Union home secretary.

After police registered the FIR alleging sedition, he and his family have been facing social stigma, Ali's petition said. His family has been isolated by the local community and relatives and they are being treated like traitors. His wife and younger child have been traumatized by the ordeal, the petition stated.

Kochi city police commissioner arrived at a hypothetical inference that amounts to character assassination, the petitioner alleged.

The petitioner has cited the commissioner's remark, which is extracted in the FIR, stating "as petitioner was working in UAE and his remark in the Facebook 'I Love Pakistan' and his close relation with Pakistanis in UAE may indulge in antisocial activities". Such a casual statement prejudicially affects the liberty of the petitioner and has caused mental trauma, social ostracism, and persecution, it is alleged.

Now, a Facebook 'like' leads to sedition charges - Times Of India

Well if the Picture included a DOG dressed up in Indian Flag then this shows Pakistani mindset ....his Pakistani friends showed their disrespect to Indian flag ..and he liked it.... that shows this guy's disrespect towards Indian National Flag...

But an FIR...and an arrest... this was too much...he should have been warned and told not to do such thing in future.

 

[KS]

Well if the Picture included a DOG dressed up in Indian Flag then this shows Pakistani mindset ....his Pakistani friends showed their disrespect to Indian flag ..and he liked it.... that shows this guy's disrespect towards Indian National Flag...

But an FIR...and an arrest... this was too much...he should have been warned and told not to do such thing in future.

Kerala is fast heading towards radicalism due to wahhabi idealogy and currency counterfeiting is a big problem there.

Counterfeit notes ring leader deported from UAE, arrested - Indian Express

 

[SHAMK9]

Well if the Picture included a DOG dressed up in Indian Flag then this shows Pakistani mindset ....his Pakistani friends showed their disrespect to Indian flag ..and he liked it.... that shows this guy's disrespect towards Indian National Flag...

But an FIR...and an arrest... this was too much...he should have been warned and told not to do such thing in future.

so now its our fault lovely, says much about your mindset to.