MP man arrested for hateful Facebook posts on Pulwama attack

A 20-year-old man was arrested for allegedly making objectionable comments about the CRPF jawans killed in the Pulwama attack and uploading an image of the Pakistan flag on his Facebook account in Madhya Pradesh, police said Monday.

Monti Khan, a resident of Birsinghpur in Pali town of Umaria district, was arrested on Sunday after a complaint was received and a probe was initiated by the police's cyber squad, said Superintendent of Police Asit Yadav.

Yadav said the man was produced before a local court and had been remanded in judicial custody.

Pali police station in charge Ashok Kumar Jha said a resident named Sonu Vishwakarma filed a complaint against Khan following which the action was initiated.

"Khan made objectionable comments about the CRPF martyrs of the Pulwama attack and also uploaded a picture of the Pakistan flag on his Facebook account," Jha said.

Monti was arrested under section 153 (provocation with intent to cause riot), 153 (A) (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence, language etc) and 153 (B) (offence of promoting disharmony) of the Indian Penal Code, he informed.

Complainant Vishwakarma, the convener of the Bajrang Dal's district unit here, termed Khan's act as anti-national.

The Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM), the youth wing of the BJP, held a protest march later on Sunday evening over Khan's act.

Forty Central Reserve Police Force troopers were killed on February 14 when a Jaish-e-Mohammed operative rammed an explosive-laden vehicle into the paramilitary force's convoy in Pulwama in Jammu and Kashmir.