The Uttar Pradesh Police on Sunday said that a 22-year-old man has been arrested in Muzaffarnagar for posting a video allegedly containing objectionable remarks about Prime Minister Narendra Modi, PTI reported.
Satyanarayan Dahiya, station house officer of the Charthawal police station, said that the person accused in the matter has been identified as Jitendra Kumar Kashyap.
Kashyap was arrested on Saturday evening after the video of the prime minister was circulated widely on social media, the news agency quoted unidentified police officers as saying.
The case against Kashyap had been filed under sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita pertaining to intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace and statements conducing to public mischief.
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