A teacher held over WhatsApp Status post; Two Congress MLAs had approached Police

A teacher held over WhatsApp Status post; Two Congress MLAs had approached Police

Ahmedabad: City cybercrime police nabbed a 40-year old teacher working at a school in satellite area for allegedly posting anti-Islam message as her Whatsapp status and inciting hatred between communities.

Congress MLAs Gyasuddin Shaikh and Imran Khedawala had approached the city police commissioner Sanjay Srivastav on Saturday regarding the Whatsapp status involving a lady teacher. They handed over a written representation to the commissioner alleging that the teacher’s comment on social media was communally charged and could incite a communal rift.

The teacher named Manisha Bhavsar had allegedly uploaded a WhatsApp status in Hindi a couple of days back stating that mosques were there to keep weapons, Madrassas for training, burqa for hiding identity, cap for identity, ‘Mazars’ for encroaching land. DeshGujarat