Kochi:
Proper-wing political commentator TG Mohandas was taken into custody from his residence in Mattancherry right here on Sunday over remarks he allegedly made in a YouTube video a couple of college students’ protest in Delhi over the NEET paper leak, police mentioned.
A staff from the Thiruvananthapuram Cyber Police Station, which is probing the case, reached Mohandas’ residence at Koovappadam close to Mattancherry on Sunday night together with officers from the native police station.
Police mentioned Mohandas was current when the investigation staff arrived.
The police staff collected details about his YouTube account and digital tools allegedly used to create and add the video, officers mentioned.
Police sources mentioned Mohandas could be questioned intimately as a part of the investigation.
The case was registered following a grievance alleging that movies uploaded on Mohandas’ YouTube channel, ‘Pathrika’, had been supposed to disturb public peace and create worry and unrest among the many public.
Within the video, Mohandas allegedly mentioned the Delhi college students’ protest “might result in incidents of gang rape” and claimed that there could be no complaints as a result of “these attending the protest like rape and there are ladies who take pleasure in being raped”.
He additionally allegedly mentioned that, if he had been in cost, he would impose a curfew and order the protesters to disperse and, in the event that they refused, “open hearth”.
He additional claimed that though some folks could be killed or completely injured, the scenario could be introduced below management inside hours and the our bodies shifted to hospitals.
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