Express News Service
BENGALURU: Bengaluru is emerging as the centre of online “activism”, which has come under the radar of law enforcement agencies for alleged anti-national content. Mehdi Masroor Biswas, Abhay Nayak and now Disha Ravi, all from Bengaluru, have been arrested under stringent sections of the law for alleged online anti-national propaganda.
Disha is the first person to be arrested in the farmer toolkit case, which was registered by the Delhi police on February 3 against the “creators” of the controversial online document, which the police claim has hyperlinks to secessionist and anti-India websites.
On June 1, 2018, Abhay Nayak, a resident of Bengaluru, was arrested by the Chhattisgarh police at the Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi, soon after he had landed from his trip to Europe, where he had gone to present his paper on artificial consciousness at a neuroscience conference and explore options for PhD, his father Devdas Nayak had stated.