GURUGRAM: Three journalists of a Faridabad-based website and a junior school teacher were sent to 14-day judicial custody on Sunday for allegedly posting “objectionable and obscene” content on Facebook against a woman leader of BJP All suspects were produced before duty magistrate Garima Yadav on Sunday on completion of their three-day police custody. The bail application of suspects is scheduled for hearing on Monday. The four were arrested by the Crime Investigating Agency (CIA) of Faridabad police following a complaint filed by the woman leader.According to police, the journalists, who have been booked under sections 499 (words or action intending to harm a person’s reputation) and 67 (publishing or transmitting obscene material in electronic form) of the Information Technology Act, run web portals. The woman alleged that Shiv Kumar Mudgal, who works as a teacher, had posted “objectionable contents” against her. The contents were allegedly carried by three different web portals run by Naveen Dhamija, Sanjay Kapoor and Navin Gupta.Police said that in the second week of April when someone visited the BJP MLA, the woman leader was also present at the legislator’s house. The visitor started arguing with the MLA. The video of the incident had gone viral. A few days later, a school teacher posted a picture of the woman leader and the MLA with objectionable comments. Three portals carried a story on the basis of the post.BJP leader Raman Mallik said no one is above law. “We respect freedom of expression, but carrying news without verifying facts is unreasonable.”

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