A youth who had allegedly posted comments counter to Prime Minister designate Narendra Modi on his Facebook account in the course of the Lok Sabha election campaign, is likely to face arrest as a local court rejected his anticipatory bail plea here on Friday.
The Youngman, Devu Chodankar is from Goa and a naval engineer by profession.
Both the district and sessions court rejected the bail plea of Devu Chodankar, after a local cybercrime cell investigating the complaint against him alleged that his Facebook post was a larger game plan to “promote communal and social disharmony“in the state.
Later the post was withdrawn by Chodankar.
Goan businessman Atul Pai Kane, who heads the BJP-led Goa government’s committee on investment and industrial policy, had lodged a complaint against Chodankar, who is at present out of station.
The police had registered an FIR under Section 153(A), 295(A) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), besides Section 125 of the Representation of People Act as well as Section 66-A of the IT Act