Assam: Woman Charged With Sedition, Arrested for Facebook Post After Chhattisgarh Attack
âSalaried professionals who die in the line of duty cannot be termed martyrs, the Facebook post read.
Sikha Sarma. Photo: Facebook/Sikha Sarma
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New Delhi:Â Sikha Sarma, a Guwahati-based writer, has been charged with sedition and was arrested on Tuesday for a Facebook post written after the death of 22 jawans in a Maoist attack in Chhattisgarh.
Guwahati police commissioner Munna Prasad Gupta told
Indian Express that Sarma was arrested under âvarious sections, including IPC 124A (sedition)â.
According to the newspaper, Sarma had allegedly written on Facebook: