A professor was called at the Kolkata Police Headquarters at Lalbazar on Thursday for interrogation after he reportedly posted comments against IPS officer Aparajita Rai on social media.
Riddho Choudhuri, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at CIEM in Kolkata reportedly commented on the role of the IPS officer on Monday's Left Front rally. After the interrogation, Choudhuri was informed by the police that charges would be leveled against him under the Cyber Crime Act. The officers took him to his Salt Lake residence to interrogate him further. According to a police source, his mobile phone and laptops were seized and he was interrogated further for hours.
Meanwhile, CPI(M) leaders including Saptarshi Deb and Ritabrata Banerjee reached his residence on Thursday night.
Choudhuri had posted a Facebook status stating that the IPS officer was active in coordinating TMC goons during the Salt Lake Corporation elections. In that specific post, Choudhuri also alleged that the IPS officer aided and abetted massive rigging. "Personal status. The name of this woman is Aparajita Rai, IPS. In 2015, she was active in coordinating TMC goons during salt lake corporation election.
She aided and abetted massive rigging conducted by armed TMC goons. When the people of my booth, no 221 (Falguni government housing) resisted the police goon combine, she came with a large force behind her and started abusing officers way senior to her," Choudhuri's post on Facebook on Thursday read. "Last Monday, during Nabanna Abhiyan, she attacked senior left leaders and journalists. Madam, you are an young IPS officer, don't try to show off your strength. We know your limitations and that of your mentor. Don't make the rest of your working life a living hell, you never know what the tides of time bring you.
Take care. We will make sure you live peacefully. Read history of resistance in bengal, remember what happened to Sonam Wangdi and Runu Guha Niyogi," Choudhuri's post on Facebook on Thursday further said. Sources said police would take stringent steps under Cyber Crime laws against the accused professor who tried to "malign" the image of the police officer by taking political references.