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Kolkata Police issues notice to Mahua Moitra over social media posts
- •Kolkata Police has sent a notice to X demanding the removal of two controversial posts by TMC MP Mahua Moitra.
- •The posts allegedly contained false and defamatory statements against Chief Secretary Manoj Kumar Agarwal and former CEO Subrata Gupta.
- •The police notice cited sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and the Information Technology Act over public panic and breach of peace.
- •Earlier, Manoj Kumar Agarwal had also sent a 10-crore defamation legal notice to Mahua Moitra over the same posts.
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Kolkata Police issued a notice to X to remove two posts by TMC MP Mahua Moitra that allegedly propagated false, offensive, and defamatory statements against West Bengal Chief Secretary Manoj Kumar Agarwal and the state's Chief Electoral Officer Subrata Gupta.
The notice cited Section 352 and Sections 353(1)(b) and 353(1)(c) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, alongside Section 79(3)(b) of the Information Technology Act, 2000, and rules from the Information Technology Rules, 2021.
Manoj Kumar Agarwal filed a 10-crore defamation legal notice against Mahua Moitra for posts labeling him a vote thief and blaming him for voter deletions during the SIR process, demanding a public apology, retraction within 24 hours, and 50,000 rupees in legal costs.
