Samajwadi Party's social media coordinator Manish Jagan Agarwal has been booked for allegedly making derogatory and abusive posts against former Allahabad university student's union president Richa Singh, officials said.
Ms Singh had contested the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly poll from Prayagraj on a Samajwadi Party ticket.
An FIR against Mr Agarwal has been lodged at the Shivkuti police station on a complaint by Richa Singh who alleged being targeted by him on social media platform X, called Twitter till recently, police officials said.
According to the FIR, Mr Agarwal, who manages the official X account of the Samajwadi Party, used extremely indecent and derogatory language in response to a tweet by Singh on August 17.
It is alleged in the FIR that Mr Agarwal was openly threatening to humiliate and malign her through social media and other means.
Based on the complaint, the police lodged an FIR on Friday under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code and the Information Technology Act.
It is noteworthy that in the last year's assembly elections, Richa Singh had contested on a Samajwadi Party ticket from Prayagraj.
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