Chennai: Economist detained after fake Instagram account using his photo targets TVK MLA
A Kalaiyarasan said he had been picked up without being given an opportunity to explain himself and was made to write a statement denying links to the profile.
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The Chennai Police on Wednesday briefly detained economist A Kalaiyarasan over an allegedly abusive Instagram comment about a Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam MLA made by a fake account purportedly using his photograph, The Indian Express reported.
Kalaiyarasan, an associate professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies, alleged that police personnel in plain clothes arrived at his Chennai residence at around 5 am and took him away in a rented car, the newspaper reported.
“They did not furnish any document authorising the inquiry, not even a copy of the complaint or first information report,” Kalaiyarasan later wrote in letter complaining to the state police chief.
He said he was not allowed to inform his family before being detained.
“I felt deeply harassed and humiliated by the way I was treated, without being given even a reasonable opportunity to explain myself,” The News Minute quoted Kalaiyarasan as saying in his complaint.
After being picked up by the police, Kalaiyarasan was told that he was needed for an inquiry at a police station in Chennai’s Pammal suburb for an allegedly abusive Instagram comment targeting J Kamatchi, the TVK MLA from Pallavaram, The Indian Express reported.
TVK leads the ruling coalition in Tamil Nadu.
Kalaiyarasan denied having an Instagram account or knowing the MLA.
According to his complaint to the Tamil Nadu director general of police, the vehicle...
