Jailed for Twitter joke on Konark Temple, Abhijit Mitra now hospitalised
Latest News: The Delhi-based analyst Abhijit Iyer-Mitra, arrested by the Odisha police for a tweet about the Konark Sun Temple that a senior officer says was “derogatory and very, very objectionable”, has taken ill and been hospitalised after spending six weeks in jail without bail.
Mitra was initially booked by the Odisha police on September 20 for a satirical video posted on his Twitter handle. Two FIRs were filed against him, one at Konark police station in Puri district and the other at Saheed Nagar police station in Khurda district under different sections of the IPC.|Abhijit Iyer Mitra
He was subsequently released after a Delhi court denied the Odisha police permission to police to take him to the state on transit remand and granted him limited bail.Mitra was also asked by the court to join the investigation, but he approached the Supreme Court claiming a threat to his life. However, the apex court on October 4 refused to grant him bail, with Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi saying that if indeed there was a threat to his life, then jail was the “safest place” for him.
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