Twin City Commissionerate Police on Sunday late night arrested the owner of a Web channel, Sudhanshu Sekhar Rout from Barbil in Odisha’s Keonjhar district for his alleged derogatory remarks and fake news on social media.
The action comes in the wake of a complaint lodged by a leading media group against Rout at the Saheed Nagar police station in the capital city for allegedly posting fake news about the organisation. He was nabbed by a special team last night while he hiding in a hotel there, sources said.
Rout has been booked under Sections 294 (utters any obscene song, ballad or words, in or near any public place), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 506 (criminal intimidation), 509 (Whoever, intending to insult the modesty of any woman) of the IPC and Section 67 (publishing or transmitting obscene material in electronic form) of the IT Act.
It is worth mentioning here that Rout had spent about three months in Jharpada Special Jail in Bhubaneswar earlier after his arrest for allegedly publishing obscene photos of sprinter Dutee Chand and alleged attempts to extort money from her, besides attempting extortion. A case was then registered against him under Sections 292 (obscene and indecent publication), 354 (Assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty), 385 (Putting person in fear of injury in order to commit extortion), 506 (criminal intimidation), 120B (criminal conspiracy) and 509 (Whoever, intending to insult the modesty of any woman).
According to reports, a number of cases are registered against Rout at the Lakshminagar police station, Women’s police station and Cyber Police Station in Bhubaneswar.
