UP cricketer jailed for derogatory remarks on Indian team released, mulls future

[Abdullah719]

Shahjahanpur: Mohd Nayeem, 24, a Shahjahanpur-based cricketer, had never thought that a heated discussion with his close friends on a WhatsApp group will land him in jail. On the night of June 18, after India lost to Pakistan in the Champions Trophy final, a dejected Nayeem got into an argument with his friends and wrote that “the Indian team deliberately lost that match as it was already fixed. The Indian team had taken money to lose this match.”

A day later, an FIR was registered against him and two of his friends at Chowk Kotwali police station under Section 66 A of the IT Act. Police filed a chargesheet in the matter and the case came up for hearing in the court of the chief judicial magistrate on October 31, when Nayeem was sent to the district jail.

The action against Nayeem was taken on a complaint filed by Rajkamal Vajpai, a local cricketer who is attached to BJP Yuva Morcha. Vajpai, who was also part of the WhatsApp group, produced a screenshot of the chat history in front of Shahjahanpur police chief KB Singh, who later ordered an FIR in the matter.

Interestingly, while Nayeem was initially booked under the IT Act, police later added IPC sections 295A (deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage religious feelings) and 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace) in the chargesheet. When asked about the additional charges, Chowk Kotwali police station in-charge Ashok Pal said, “Based on the evidence we got during the course of investigation, additional charges under IPC sections were slapped against the accused.”
On Thursday, after cops submitted to the court that Nayeem has a clean record, he was granted bail and is expected to walk free on Friday. Kamlesh Kumar, Nayeem’s lawyer, said, “The court has granted bail to my client as he has not harmed anyone and doesn’t have any criminal history.”

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com...-indian-cricket-team/articleshow/61473091.cms

 

[Abdullah719]

Interestingly, while Nayeem was initially booked under the IT Act, police later added IPC sections 295A (deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage religious feelings) and 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace) in the chargesheet.

What

 

[troodon]

Stupid.

Its UP. There are far more worse things that happen there everyday. Just flip the channel to ABP News or Aaj Tak or NDTV India. Some are funny and some are outrageous and some are plain depressing.

 

[CricketCartoons]

Stupid.

Its UP. There are far more worse things that happen there everyday. Just flip the channel to ABP News or Aaj Tak or NDTV India. Some are funny and some are outrageous and some are plain depressing.

This is libel, and the guy should be arrested. However the charges are wrong.

 

[cricketjoshila]

This idiotic. First of all no FIR can be lodged under IT act 66A as it has been deemed illegal by Supreme Court.So the initial arrest and FIR should be quashed. The police therefore added 295A and 509.

 

[Madplayer]

Another man has been arrested after using abusive language for Modi in a whatsapp chat with his friend.

Apparently it was his friend who lodged the complaint against him.

I think it happened somewhere in South India.

 

[Madplayer]

This.

https://www.google.co.in/amp/s/amp....s-on-modi-wrote-them-in-private-facebook-chat

 

[CricketCartoons]

Another man has been arrested after using abusive language for Modi in a whatsapp chat with his friend.

Apparently it was his friend who lodged the complaint against him.

I think it happened somewhere in South India.

Abusive language should never be tolerated, and should never come under FoE. Need more people to come out and report all these abusers whose parents didn't teach them how to talk like a decent and cultured human, or they did, but these losers didn't listen. Zero tolerance policy for using such parliamentary language.

 

[gani999]

Shahjahanpur: Mohd Nayeem, 24, a Shahjahanpur-based cricketer, had never thought that a heated discussion with his close friends on a WhatsApp group will land him in jail. On the night of June 18, after India lost to Pakistan in the Champions Trophy final, a dejected Nayeem got into an argument with his friends and wrote that “the Indian team deliberately lost that match as it was already fixed. The Indian team had taken money to lose this match.”

He just said what anyone with half a cricketing brain would have suspected, ever since that match took place.

Not to take anything away from Pakistan, but there was definitely something fishy about the decisions taken by Kohli in that game.

 

[gani999]

Abusive language should never be tolerated, and should never come under FoE. Need more people to come out and report all these abusers whose parents didn't teach them how to talk like a decent and cultured human, or they did, but these losers didn't listen. Zero tolerance policy for using such parliamentary language.

Absolutely. Criticism is ok, but abusive language is definitely wrong.

Even people who call Rahul Gandhi names should be arrested.

 

[Abdullah719]

UP cricketer jailed for derogatory remarks on Indian team released, mulls future

Shahjahanpur: A 24-year-old local cricketer, who was jailed for an allegedly derogatory social media post on the Indian cricket team on Tuesday, was released on Friday evening.

Mohammad Nayeem, who pays for a local team, had alleged posted derogatory marks on June 18, during the India-Pakistan Champions Trophy match. On Tuesday, he went to court to answer summons for a case under section 295 A (deliberate and malicious acts to outrage religious feelings of a class), 504 (intentional insult to provoke breach of the peace) and sections of the IT Act. He was arrested and sent to jail.

In India, Muslims don't have freedom of speech and expression. If we express our anger in any way, it is considered treason. If a person from any other community expresses such sentiments, it is considered frustration. There were many others in the WhatsApp group on which I posted my remarks, but an FIR was filed only against three, all from one community,” said Nayem on Friday after coming out of jail.

“I never expected to be sent to jail for showing my emotions at India’s loss to Pakistan. I love my country and was happy when we reached the final. When we lost, I was upset and showed it. If I was supporting that country, I would have been happy. I don’t know why the complainant and the investigating officer judged me on the basis of my religion,” Nayeem added.

“The way the entire match turned out, it looked like it was fixed. Even Union minister Ramdas Athawale demanded a probe. Why was only I penalized? All the time I was in jail, I thought about this. However, there were some good moments as well, when I played a cricket match there, and the jailer met me after I hit two consecutive sixes and praised me,” Nayeem said.

The youth expressed concern about the future and his social image, now that he had been in jail. “The coming days are going to be hard for me. I am not sure what will happen to my career,” Nayeem added.

His friends and team mates, including Balwinder Singh, Kartik Kumar and Mayur Khanna, expressed happiness that Nayeem had been released at last, and looked forward to him playing cricket again.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com...eleased-mulls-future/articleshow/61499178.cms

 

[big_gamer007]

Shameful and embarrassing news, U.P already had many problems and now since BJP came into power the communalism is also increasing.. Sad days ahead

 

[Yossarian]

If Pakistani fans were jailed for saying similar about their team, half the country would be in jail!