Indore cartoonist booked for 'objectionable' social media content on RSS man's complaint
Indore, May 23 (PTI): A cartoonist in Indore in Madhya Pradesh was booked on the complaint of an RSS functionary for allegedly posting objectionable content on social media, a police official said on Thursday.
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh activist and city-based lawyer Vinay Joshi, in his complaint at Lasudiya police station on Wednesday night, claimed the contents of Hemant Malviya's cartoons are "offensive", "obscene" and "indecent" and that he was intentionally posting them on social media to hurt the religious sentiments of Hindus and tarnish the image of the RSS.
An official said the contents posted on Malviya's Facebook account include comments, cartoons, videos and photos related to Lord Shiva, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, RSS etc.
Malviya has been booked under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita sections 196 (acts detrimental to communal harmony), 299 (deliberate act intended to hurt religious sentiments) and 352 (intentional insult with intent to breach peace) and section 67A of Information Technology Act (publication or transmission of material depicting sexually explicit acts in electronic form), Lasudiya police station in charge Tareesh Soni told PTI.
He is yet to be arrested and a probe is underway, Soni added.
Incidentally, Malviya's Facebook profile includes a disclaimer stating all characters in his cartoons are "fictional," and any resemblance to real persons is "coincidental" and based on "viewers' imagination". He has around 40,000 followers on Facebook.
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South African police arrest suspect in mass shooting that killed 12, including 3 children
Johannesburg (AP): A 32-year-old suspect has been arrested in connection with a mass shooting which claimed the lives of 12 people including three children at an unlicensed pub earlier this month, South African police said on Monday.
The man is suspected of being one of the three people who opened fire on patrons in a pub at Saulsville township, west of South Africa's capital Pretoria, killing 12 people including three children aged 3, 12 and 16.
At least 13 people were also injured during the attack, whose motive remains unknown.
According to the police, the suspect was arrested on Sunday while traveling to Botlokwa in Limpopo province, more than 340 km from where the mass shooting took place on Dec 6.
An unlicensed firearm believed to have been used during the attack was recovered from the suspect's vehicle.
“The 32-year-old suspect was intercepted by Limpopo Tracking Team on the R101 Road in Westenburg precinct. During the arrest, the team recovered an unlicensed firearm, a hand gun, believed to have been used in the commission of the multiple murders. The firearm will be taken to the Forensic Science Laboratory for ballistic analysis,” police said in statement.
The suspect was arrested on the same day that another mass shooting at a pub took place in the Bekkersdal township, west of Johannesburg, in which nine people were killed and 10 wounded when unknown gunmen opened fire on patrons.
Police have since launched a search for the suspects.
South Africa has one of the highest homicide rates in the world and recorded more than 26,000 homicides in 2024 — an average of more than 70 a day. Firearms are by far the leading cause of death in homicides.
The country of 62 million people has relatively strict gun ownership laws, but many killings are committed with illegal guns, according to authorities.
According to police, mass shootings at unlicensed bars are becoming a serious problem. Police shut down more than 11,000 illegal taverns between April and September this year and arrested more than 18,000 people for involvement in illegal liquor sales.
