Lawfare – National Security, Others

University of Lucknow assistant professor Madri Kakoti, known as satirist Dr Medusa online, has been booked for her social media posts on the Pahalgam attack.

An FIR has been lodged at Hasanganj police station on the basis of a complaint from an ABVP member, who is enrolled in a postgraduate course at the university. It has been filed under BNS sections 197(1), 152, 302, 352, 353(2) and 196(1)(a) apart from provisions of the IT Act.

Jatin Shukla, the complainant, alleged that Dr Medusa’s social media posts were detrimental to national integrity and law and order in India. Shukla claimed that Dr Medusa had repeatedly referred to “saffron terror” and her post was also shared by a Pakistani social media account.