Kolkata man held for giving rape threat to Bengali poet on Facebook, granted bail
According to reports, city police's cyber crime cell booked the accused, Raja Das, from his relative's place at Bagda area in Kolkata's neighbouring North 24 Parganas district.
Earlier on Mar 29, poet Mandakranta Sen lodged a complaint in city police's cyber cell alleging that Raja Das had threatened her on social networking site Facebook with gang-rape.
Days after several FIRs were lodged against poet Srijato Bandyopadhyay for allegedly hurting religious sentiment through his poem, Mandakranta Sen posted a status on Facebook in solidarity with Srijato.
The young woman poet from Kolkata claimed that the person, Raja Das, then threatened her with gang-rape for supporting Srijato and his poem.
Police have seized a mobile phone, two sim cards and a memory card from Raja Das's possession and sent them for laboratory tests, according to officials.
However, the man was produced in a city court later and was granted conditional bail.
(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)
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