-The Telegraph   The Congress leadership today took care not to rub Mamata Banerjee the wrong way despite its apparent unease over a cartoon episode that led to the arrest of a professor in Bengal. There were instructions from the top to exercise restraint and spokespersons were told to avoid making any direct comment. At the official briefing, party spokesperson Manish Tiwari repeatedly said he was not aware of the details and making...

-CNN-IBN   Even as the controversy surrounding the arrest of Jadavpur University professor Ambikesh Mahapatra over a cartoon on Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is still afresh, the West Bengal CID has initiated a probe into another complaint of cyber crime and defamation on social networking websites, including Facebook. The complainant, Sumon Naskar, had lodged a complaint at Salt Lake Electronic Complex police station on April 9 against caricatures and posts made on the...

-The Telegraph   If you are still not wearing such handcuffs in Bengal, Subha Nava Varsha and read on... Calcutta, April 13: A Jadavpur University professor and a 72-year-old retired engineer have been arrested for allegedly circulating clips of an Internet joke about chief minister Mamata Banerjee and charged with trying to outrage her modesty. Fittingly, the police crackdown got off the ground 40 minutes past the appointed hour for the dreaded midnight knock. The...

-First Post Sibal stopped at just a warning, but Mamata went ahead and did it: nab anyone who expresses anything against you on the web. A professor from Jadavpur University in Kolkata, was arrested on Friday for allegedly spreading ‘anti-Mamata Banerjee‘ cartoons on the web. Ambikesh Mahapatra, a teacher in the chemistry department of the Jadavpur University, was reportedly attacked by Trinamool Congress workers on Thursday night while he was returning home. Police have...

-PTI A professor of chemistry of the Jadavpur University was arrested on Friday along with his neighbour for allegedly posting a cartoon on a popular social networking site involving chief minister Mamata Banerjee, railway minister Mukul Roy and former railway minister Dinesh Trivedi. DCP (south suburban division) Sujay Chanda said that professor Ambikesh Mohapatra was arrested along with a neighbour residing in east Jadavpur for spreading derogatory messages against "respectable persons". They would...