Patrika journalist Prabhat Singh has been arrested under Section 297 of the Indian Penal Code and Section 67 of the Information Technology Act (circulating obscene material) and will be in judicial remand till March 30, reports Scroll. Three other cases of forgery and cheating have also been lodged against Singh. The report states that the complaint was registered by Santosh Tiwari, a former ETV reporter, for allegedly making confrontational comments against some members of Samajik Ekta Manch on WhatsApp. Scroll points out that Samajik Ekta Manch had protested outside the house of a Scroll journalist last month. Earlier this month, Singh had apparently sent a written complaint to the Dantewada Police against the members of Samajik Ekta Manch stating that some of them had called him an anti-national on a WhatsApp group chat, leading to his defamation. Tiwari had also filed a complaint against Singh at that time, relating to the same WhatsApp chat. Journalist Rahul Pandita tweeted a screenshot of the WhatsApp chat. MediaNama is not in a position to independently verify the authenticity or relevance of that screenshot to the current issue. Imagine! This whatsapp message landed Bastar journalist Prabhat Singh in jail (By the way he wanted to write 'Gaud') pic.twitter.com/RdSq8B8xDO — Rahul Pandita (@rahulpandita) March 23, 2016 Morphed image on WhatsApp lead to arrest: Last week, two youths Shakir Yunus Banthia and Vasim Shaikh were arrested in Khargone, Madhya Pradesh for sharing a morphed image of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat on WhatsApp and…
