The arrest of Priyanka Sharma, a BJP youth wing activist for posting a morphed picture of Mamata Banerjee on the social media platform, Facebook, is the latest event in a series of such arrests in the country. Priyanka Sharma was arrested for sharing a meme which had a morphed image of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's face on Priyanka Chopra's recent Met Gala look.

In 2012, a professor from Kolkata shared TMC or Mamata Banerjee cartoons on social media and landed in jail. Prof Ambikesh Mahapatra was arrested for sharing a cartoon of Mamata Banerjee to his friends. Ambikesh Mahapatra, professor of chemistry was assaulted by alleged TMC workers while he was on his way back from work and jailed for a night.