A Bengali woman was arrested for allegedly cooking beef and then hurting religious sentiments by circulating a video of it online. She was identified as Jyotsna Bibi, a resident of Bengal who lived as a tenant in Chanderlok in the Chakkarpur area and worked as a domestic help.
According to the police, on May 30, the Chakkarpur police chowki received information that a controversy had erupted in Chandralok in the Chakkarpur area over a video related to beef. The complainant Dinesh Yadav, a resident of Chakkarpur village, showed a video in which a woman allegedly asked someone to invite a Chief Minister to cook and eat beef. The video is alleged to have been intended to hurt Hindu religious sentiments.
Following the complaint, an FIR was registered at the Sector 29 police station and police arrested the woman, a native of Damodarpur village in South Dinajpur district in West Bengal, on May 30. She was sent into judicial custody after being produced in a city court.
On Tuesday, Jyotsna Bibi’s lawyer filed a bail petition in court, but she was denied bail. Hearing the bail petition, Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMIC) Suman’s court set June 8 for the next hearing.
Advocate Sundar, representing complainant Dinesh Yadav, said that the parties’ arguments on the accused’s bail petition were heard on Tuesday and the next hearing on June 8.
“We also seized the accused’s mobile phone and preserved it for forensic examination. The police also opposed the bail application in court, arguing that if the accused is released, she could influence witnesses. A further probe is under way,” said a senior police officer.