'Sameet Thakkar is part of the hate brigade of BJP'

Twitter celebrity Sameet Thakkar who has been booked for posting malicious content against Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and his family members had appeared before the VP Road police on October 5 on the direction of Bombay HC to cooperate with the investigators but disappeared after allegedly noticing a Cyber Cell teamComplainant Dharmendra Mishra told midday Thakkar is part of a hate brigade working with the IT cell of BJP and lives in NagpurApproached the Cyber CellThe FIR was registered on July 7 and a police team was sent to Nagpur in August to arrest Thakkar but he was not available at his home Till date he has not stopped spewing venom in his tweets against the Maharashtra chief minister and his family members and female politicians belonging to nonBJP parties and journalists The police team camped in Nagpur for a month but returned empty handed said Mishra He claimed Thakkar has been followed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi former Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis and dozens of Union cabinet ministersThe car that Thakkar allegedly fled inSince the investigation did not yield result the complainant also approached the Cyber Cell of the Mumbai policeThakkar approached the Bombay HC to quash the FIR against him and Justices SS Shinde and MS Karnik on October 1 directed him to appear before the VP Road police station and record his statement Mishra claimed that Thakkar reached VP Road police station with his two advocatesSources told midday that a team of the Cyber Cell also reached VP Road police station to hand Thakker a notice under Section 41A notice of appearance before police officer of CrPC But after learning that Thakkar disappeared without recording his statement on the pretext of using a washroomGot into a car and fledThakkar got into a car bearing the registration number MH 01 CT 5678 and the investigating officer PI Sopan Kakad and senior PI Gulabrao More did nothing to stop him The car belongs to a BJP worker Mangesh Dalvi who lives in Lower Parel This amounts to contempt of court as Thakkar did not record his statement Most of Thakkars tweets are highly defamatory insinuative and amount to criminal intimidation which may cause social unrest claimed Mishra who met Joint Commissioner of Police Law and Order Vishwas Nangre Patil regarding the matterNangre Patil changed the investigating team and handed the case over to Assistant Commissioner of Police Rajeev Sawant The matter of his disappearance was also raised in the HC where Abhinav Chandrachud a senior counsel who appeared for Thakkar told the bench that he Thakkar had apprehensions that the Cyber Cell team may arrest him after handing him a noticeThe hearing on the plea to quash the FIR was scheduled for Monday The HC has directed Thakkar to appear before the police station on Friday The matter was adjourned to October 23 for hearingKeep scrolling to read more newsCatch up on all the latest Mumbai news crime news current affairs and a complete guide from food to things to do and events across Mumbai Also download the new midday Android and iOS apps to get latest updates MidDay is now on Telegram Click here to join our channel middayinfomedialtd and stay updated with the latest news