NewDelhi: The Assam police arrested an associate professor of a college in Assam’s Hailakandi district on Saturday for allegedly sending emails to officials criticising government policies and using unparliamentary words against the chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, a police officer told news agency PTI.
The arrest was followed by a suo moto case being registered against the professor by the police, the officer added.
As per the PTI report, the officer-in-charge of Hailakandi Sadar police station Ampee Daolagupu said that the accused had allegedly sent out emails to the official email account of the district superintendent of police condemning government policies and also used unparliamentary terms against the chief minister and the Education minister.
He added that the Professor also purportedly criticised the National Education Policy 2020 and the ongoing `Gunotsav’ in the state, an exercise by the Education Department to evaluate government schools in the email.
“Besides the email to the SP, he had sent similar ones to other government officials of the district also,” he added.
“We started questioning him on Thursday and finally, today we arrested him,” the OC said on Saturday.
When contacted, the principal of the college claimed that he had no official information regarding the arrest of the associate professor, PTI reported.
On Saturday, a Delhi University professor named Ratan Lal was also arrested for allegedly posting doubts on social media regarding the ‘shivling’ found in the Gyanvapi mosque.
Professor Ratan Lal was arrested on basis of a complaint filed by a Delhi-based lawyer. Advocate Vineet Jindal said in his complaint that Prof. Lal has recently shared a "derogatory, inciting and provocative tweet on the Shivling.”