NEW DELHI — Jeetrai Hansda, a professor at the Government School and College for Women, Sakchi, in Jharkhand was arrested on Saturday. A lawyer from the team handling Hansda’s case told HuffPost India that a complaint was filed against him in June 2017 based on a Facebook post he had written. A diary was filed against Hansda’s Facebook post in 2017 and after ‘investigating’ the complaint, inspector Anil Kumar Singh of Sakchi police station lodged the FIR. Hansda is a prominent Adivasi activist and theatre artist and his Facebook post asserted his community’s right to eat beef. In fact, his post is truthful representation of the cultural and religious traditions of the adivasi community and their culinary legacies.

Source: Huffington Post May 26, 2019 06:31 UTC