Assam editor charged with sedition
The Hindu
Anirban’s editorial deemed to promote enmity between communities : police
The Assam Police have charged the editor and co-owner of a local news portal in the Barak Valley with sedition for a November 28 editorial deemed to promote enmity between the Assamese and Bengali-speaking people of the State. The Barak Valley is dominated by Bengalis and the Brahmaputra Valley by the Assamese speakers.
Anirban Roy Choudhury was charged under 124A (sedition) and other Sections of the Indian Penal Code on the basis of a First Information Report filed by Santanu Sutradhar, a Silchar-based businessman and member of the All Assam Bengali Hindu Association, on December 2.
The other Sections include 501 for “printing or engraving matter known to be defamatory” and 153-A for “promoting enmity between different groups”.