MIDS professor alleges police harassment over fake Instagram account
Police later concluded the economist was not behind the Instagram post after questioning him and checking his phone, according to his complaint.
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Fake Instagram account, real ordeal: Chennai professor picked up at dawn over someone else’s Instagram post
The police had a photograph. They found the man in it and took him away. Checking whether he had written the offending Instagram comment came later, during a roadside halt on the journey to the station.
MIDS professor alleges police harassment over fake Instagram account
Madras Institute of Development Studies Associate Professor A. Kalaiyarasan has alleged three policemen in plain clothes took him from his Adyar residence for an inquiry into an abusive social media post without showing him a complaint or FIR. He claimed that his photograph had been misused to create a fake Instagram account.
The incident of Kalaiyarasan, a renowned economist working as an assistant professor at the Chennai Institute of Development Studies (MIDS), being illegally arrested by the police at around 5 am yesterday and taken away for questioning has created a huge storm in Tamil Nadu politics. In a letter written to the DGP in this regard, Kalaiyarasan has stated that he was illegally arrested and taken away by plainclothes police officers on the grounds …
Knocked door at 5 am, bundled in car: Noted academic alleges harassment by Tambaram cops for impersonator’s post on TVK MLA
Facing alleged harassment by the Tambaram city police in a case of mistaken identity over social media comments about a TVK MLA, a widely respected academic has written to the State police chief seeking action against the personnel and impersonator
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