GUWAHATI: A deputy superintendent of police (DSP) in Assam was arrested on Saturday for posting objectionable remarks about a woman MLA of ruling BJP on Facebook.
Anjan Bora, an officer of Assam Police Service, was arrested by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) following departmental and criminal proceedings against him. Earlier, the BJP had lodged an FIR against him demanding action.
Bora is posted as deputy commandant of a police battalion in central Assam’s Karbi Anglong district. On Facebook, he had written that the woman MLA was into prostitution, “running the business at her office chamber at the State secretariat” in Guwahati.
The BJP has two woman MLAs in Assam. Bora cited the surname of one of them but said she was not the one running the business, thereby making it amply clear who he was referring to. Later, he defended his action saying the Facebook post was based on what a former RSS leader had told him.
The State’s director general of police (DGP) Mukesh Sahay said law would take its own course.
“All of us have to be guided by laws and especially, government officers are to be guided by (service) conduct rules. So, anybody who violates the conduct rules, it is at his or her own peril. Any act, unbecoming of a government servant, amounts to violation of the conduct rules. The Facebook post is obscene but he (Bora) stands by it. Obviously, law will take its own course. Nobody is above law,” Sahay told the New Indian Express.
“Social media is a great instrument which can be used as well as abused. We always tell our officers to use it for bonafide public purpose and for good work. The officers know what they should do and what they should not. But sometimes some indiscretion takes place,” he added.